Word: dumont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average U. S. citizen the promise of television means the ultimate possibility of going to the cinema in his own home, of seeing newsreels at the moment news happens. To Paramount Pictures executives it meant much the same. thing last August when they bought half interest in Allen B. DuMont Laboratories Inc., laid plans to take a potential competitor into cinema's camp...
Last week Stanton Griffis, chairman of Paramount's executive committee, served notice that his company had not only jumped on television's bandwagon but was out to do the driving. He announced that telecasting from DuMont's transmitter now under construction at Montclair, N. J. would start in January, that Paramount had taken on the job of making cinema shorts, other films to be televised on the DuMont shows. But DuMont receiving sets are already being offered for sale in Manhattan stores for $395 ($150 to $250 is the reported mass production price). For demonstration they receive...
...forward and two back. In New York City, Manhattan's Bloomingdale Bros. Inc. and Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus, Inc. advertised American Television Corp. receiving sets. Davega City Radio Inc., retail specialists in radios and sporting goods, jumped on the band wagon, making a deal with Allen B. DuMont Laborato^ ries, Inc. for exhibition and sale of DuMont sets. Demonstrations were planned to pick up the NBC experimental evening telecast from the Empire State tower. What often happens to best-laid plans began to happen fast...
...DuMont receivers show a larger picture, are more expensive ($650 for a 10 by 8-in. screen, $395 for 8¼ by 6½ in.). They receive both pictures and sound...
Even should the public find A. T. C. and DuMont reception to their liking, three engineering obstacles stand in the way of regular U. S. television service, 1) Present television standards are tentative. Improvements might bring standards that would make current equipment obsolete. 2) The entire basic mechanism of television might be changed. 3) Either the effective range of television's video wave must be lengthened beyond the present so-mile radius or the band of wave lengths needed for a television station must be reduced radically to solve the problem of wavelength congestion...