Comment by BizarroLand

6 months ago

A lot of TV classic shows were shot on tape just because it was so much cheaper, and everything live has either always been tape or just wasn't recorded at all as far as I know.

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extraduder_ire  6 months ago

For a period of time there was TV but no way to record it onto magnetic tape, so you'd use a telecine (closed box with a film camera pointed at a TV screen) to record what was being broadcast. To air it again, you'd use a cinetele (tv camera pointed at a projected screen).

  • BizarroLand  6 months ago

    I've heard the term telecine but I've never encountered any telecine media that was differentiable from any other media, at least to my untrained eye.

    Do you know where I could find a good example of what a telecine'd video would look like, or are they indifferentiable today?

    • extraduder_ire  5 months ago

      Film grain would be the obvious giveaway, but there's a lot of effort into making the transfer as clean as possible.