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o O Three toll Television Variations Awaiting Go-Ahead From Commission or WILLIAM EWALD Uruled Press. Correspondent New York 0P Toll televi sion, like Gaul, is divided into . three parts. They are called phonevision, ubscriber-vision and telemeter. All three systems can be deliv ered by wire like your telephone or by air like the telecasts you receive now. Wire is the more expensive method, but one of iU virtues is that presumably, the show would not have to be scrambled to thwart free-loaders. The innards of each over-the-air system are almost as com plicated as a folding beach chair. But the outer mechanisms that would be stuck onto your TV set are as simple to work as a telephone or parking meter. All you need are a set of fingers ssd a willingness to pay. How They Work Here is the breakdown on the scrambled systems: Phonevision is the system of the Zenith Radio Corp., a Chic ago firm that has been tinker ing with pay TV by telephone since the mid-1930's. Phonevi sion gets its name from Zenith's early experiments with TV by telephone wire, a plan it has since junked. Under the phonevision system, a gadget about the size of a kit chen radio would be attached to your TV set. The gadget con tains five dials and is used to unscramble the electronic ome let put Into one of your chan nels by phonevision. One expert In the toll TV field, Dr. Millard Faueht, believes the gadget would cost less than $25. Each month, the phonevision customer would receive a pro gram card in the mail. It would tell him what numbers to dial for the shows he wanted to ee. For example, if the sub- Q scriber wanted to watch a pay TV movie on Tuesday night, his card might tell him to dial 'ft5453p nn hi Hprnrfpr If hp wanted to watch a fight on Thursday, he might have to dial "45321." Each subscriber would have a different set of numbers to dial so that it would be impos sible for neighbors to cheat the system by sharing code numbers. Mails Monthly Card The program cards are so constructed that every time a subcriber wishes to see what numbers to dial for a show, he has to rip through a series of perforations for each event. At the end of the month, he mails the card back to phonevision where the number of perfora tions are totaled up and his bill calculated. Subscriber-vision is a develop ment of the Skiatron Electron ics and Television Corp., a pub lic corporation. However, a' pri vate firm, Skiatron TV, is the outfit which is out hustling sub scribervision. Skiatron TV is the firm that has sweet-talked Nationalist China Stands Firm Against Philippine Chinese (Editor's note: National China has offered to evacuate thousands of Vietnamese-born Chinese to Formosa. At the ame time It refines to ,ot hundreds of Chinese now in the Phil ippines. This dispatrh alves the Na tionalist governments viewpoint. By BOBERT BROWN United Press Correspondent Taipeh (Ot Nationalist China will stand firm in Its opposition to accepting 2,400 Chinese the Philippine government wants to send to Formosa. Officials here say there will be no change in the Chiang Kal atfek government's policy on the Philippine issue despite the Na tionalist offer to accept thous ands of Vietnamese-born Chi nese. Privately they say there is a great deal of difference in the two problems. The one with the Philippines is now in its sev enth yer. Officials here point out that the "overstaying Chinese" in the Philippines apparently do not wish to come to Formosa. The Nationalist government always has stood jeady to accept any of them who applied for en try to Formosa and could meet the qualifications, they said. Likewise? the Nationalists May 3 offer to evacuate Chinese from Viet Nam was extended to all who wish to come here of their own free choice. Different Circumstances It is generally believed here that most of the Chinese in the Philippines are well enough off to take care of themselves, whereas those in Viet Nam real ly need help from the govern ment here. . Unofficially, there is an atti tude of resentment and even a degree of mistrust in certain quarters here towards some of the "overstaying" Chinese in the Philippines. Chinese here who suffered through the dark days of 1949 and 1950 after withdrawal from the mainland are not inclined to be sympathetic towards those who picked the Philippines in stead of Formosa. Nevertheless, the Nationalist government with the eyes of millions of overseas Chinese on it insists it will do all it can for the Chinese in the Philip pines if they justly -need help. The Nationalist government is thankful that the official Fili pino attitude has not become hostile. It is believed here that the Philippines could easily ab sorb the 2,400 overstaying Chi nese there. . But officials say that in Viet Na mthe arbitrary attitude of the Saigon government and its restrictions on the type of busi ness in which the Chinese may engage will make things ex tremely difficult for Chinese there. Svracuse, N.Y. W Mrs. Doris Camerata, following her doctor's prescription for jangled nerves, took a sedative and slept soundly while a burglar broke into her home and took $157 worth of valuables. the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants into its camp. Five per cent of Skiatron TV's an nual gross goes to Skiatron electronics. Its pay TV system, fortunate ly, is less complicated than its financial set-up. Under subscrib ervision, the customer would have a decoder unit hooked on his set. It's figured under mass pro duction, the units would cost less . than $20. The subscriber vision consumer gets a special IBM card each month which con tains information about the shows to be cast. If a subscriber wants to see a toll show, he in serts the IBM card into a slot in his decoder when the show is about to go on. He then pushes a button on his decoder which punches a hole in the card. That completes an electronic circuit which un jumbles the show. The card is mailed back each month for billing. Telemeter is a subsidiary of Paramont Pictures, which owns 90 per cent of it. Telemeter at taches a coin box to the set and Louis Novins, vice-persident of telemeter, thinks it should cost around $7.50 to install. The telemeter box gobbles up any kind of loot from a nickel to a 50 cent piece. It's geared to charge as much as $2.00 for a show. If you don't have the right change for a show, you can overpay and the box will credit you for the next program. Periodically, a man with a satchel will knock on the cust omer's door to empty his coin box. There is no doubt that all three of these "on the air" systems will work. They all have been tested. 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