Apollo Tapes are not missing

robert casey writes:

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.

In fact no. There where two versions of the signal, a PAL one that
was fed from OTC in Sydney and from there to the rest of OZ, and
the feed from Houston via the Pacific com sats.

Parkes and Tidbinbilla both fed Honeysuckle, and from there to OTC.
Almost all of the A11 video came from Parkes. There was a few min
of siganl from Goldstone, but OZ never saw that.

OTC was swallowed up by Telecom/Telstra so any tapes from there
would have been `efficiented' long ago.

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