The Television Installation on Board the S.S. France

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Publisher: SMPTE
Doc Type: Journal Article
Article Type: research-article
Abstract: Shipboard television offers passengers a modern entertainment medium when the weather forces abandonment of deck sports. Full use of television should include closed-circuit programs originating aboard ships as well as facilities for receiving programs beamed from nearby shore transmitters. Obstacles which were of consideration in designing the installation now aboard the S.S. France were: (a) differences in the systems employed in the United States, France and other countries in Europe; (b) the necessity of maintaining compactness because of the cubic value of space aboard ship; and (c) heat problem resulting from power consumption, because of the capacity of the air-conditioning system. The problems of compactness and of power consumption in relation to heat were met by transistorizing the equipment. In the finest motion-picture theater afloat, provisions are made to transmit 35mm cinema films through the closed-circuit TV system to each cabin equipped with receivers, at the same time as they are shown in the theater. To transmit news, 16mm cameras are arranged to record interviews or arrivals aboard ship for television transmission at a selected time. Radio news weather reports are programed by a live newscaster and televised in much the same manner as the newscasts received at home.
Publication Date: 1963-07-01
DOI: 10.5594/J06156
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J06156
Author(s): P. M. C. Van Der Spank

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