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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. The only question is whe
ther the Federal Communica
tions Commission, now deliberat
ing on the issue of toll TV, will
give the go-ahead for either tests
or full-fledged business excursions.
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