Until January 1931, it seemed to the general public of Great Britain that J.L. Baird had no effective competition from any other company in the UK. He had been active in television matters from the winter of 1922/23, had established, with others, several companies (Television Ltd., the Baird Television Development Company and the Baird International Company), had given many demonstrations of television based on his basic 30-line scanning system, had devised numerous variations of this scheme to show rudimentary colour television, stereoscopic television, noctovision, daylight television, long-distance television, inter alia and had secured much-needed publicity and finance thereby, but then, in January 1931, the Gramophone Company, or HMV (His Master's Voice) as the company was popularly called, showed equipment at the Physical and Optical Societies Exhibition in London which was to herald an ominous situation for Baird and his collaborators.

Inspec keywords: high definition television

Other keywords: stereoscopic television; great Britain; long distance television; noctovision; rudimentary colour television; daylight television; HMV; high-definition television; 30-line scanning system; gramophone company; AD 1930 to 1931; J L Baird

Subjects: High definition television and video