PROGRESS OF TELEVISION IN THE SOVIET UNION,
Abstract
The progress of tv broadcasting and tv technology in the Soviet Union are briefly reviewed. Soviet claims for early inventions related to tv techniques are laid. The central tv black-and-white broadcast program is transmitted from Moscow to 114 cities and there rediffused over most of the SSSR territory. There were 3 and 120 tv program centers and 450000 and 20 million tv sets in 1954 and 1966, respectively. The color tv (French CEKAM system) is being introduced (1967). A single-beam color-lined-screen picture tube is being developed, as are a stereo-color tv system and a color facsimile transmission system; the latter was tested on a Moscow-Leningrad telephone channel. An underground tv-camera equipment (192-mm diameter, 2000-mm long) was constructed for observing geological strata, artificial reservoirs, etc. through boreholes. Soviet cosmic vehicles (Vostok-3, Vostok-4, Voskhod-2) were equipped with Soviet-made tv systems. A simple optico-mechanical tv-system of the Luna-9 station transmitted 6000 lines in 100 minutes with a definition of 500 elements per line (1966). The Molniya-1 Soviet communication satellite tested for tv transmission from Moscow to Vladivostok in 1965 made two revolutions per day and had a useful transmission time about 8 hours per day. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 28, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0681689
Entities
People
- P. V. Shmakov
Organizations
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center