Color broadcasting timeline

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by jmdocs

Actually, CBS used one of their monochrome Ampex quad tape machines for the West Coast telecast. The quad tape isn't known to have survived; probably taped over in those early days of extremely scarce tape stock. The DVD release used the kine, which isn't all that great-looking even by kine standards.

jmdocs,

Thanks for the correction. I guess the kine was made for posterity knowing that the videotape might be erased and reused. Explains why my dvd copy is such low quality.

Best,
-Steve D.