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Old August 16th 06, 02:41 AM posted to sci.space.history
robert casey
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Default Apollo Tapes are not missing




It makes a lot of difference. NASA's originals are much higher quality than
what was broadcast live, due to the low-tech NTSC conversion method used
(literally, point a TV camera at a monitor playing the original).


And the whole world was fed via that converter. So the higher quality
signal only existed at the receive point (Parks dish antenna?) and
nobody else got to see anything other than the converted signal.