[mythtv-users] coax vs. composite

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:36:29AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>    CBS News had some footage of the 1968 Democratic Convention (In Chigago for
>    those who don't remember). It was great stuff (as far as broadcasters are
>    concerned), police cracking heads and even more obvious cases of
>    law-breaking by those sworn to uphold it.
> 
>    CBS did not air that footage because it contained a "technical flaw". I saw
>    the footage years later and had to look hard to see what the "flaw" was:
>    maybe a 3% or 4% AC hum in the video, probably not noticeable to most
>    viewers. Technical standards meant something in those days.

Is there anyone here who thinks the "technical flaw" is why that didn't
air? 

>    Of course the possibility of a fine for "out of standard" video helped this
>    view along.
> 
>    No broadcaster would hesitate to air that footage today, and you know what
>    changed it: CNN

It wasn't CNN: it was Watergate.

>    Ted Turner proved to the world that the public would accept
>    less-than-perfect video. Nowadays "amateur video" is accepted, even
>    solicited and paid for, by every major (and minor) network. Uncorrected
>    slant-track VCRs are fed to air without hesitation (well nowadays not so
>    much, but when time base correctors were $20,000 items that meant
>    something).

And if you hand them broadcast-quality DV video, they'll crap it up so
it's clear it came from a consumer camera -- I've seen it done.

Cheers,
-- jra
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