Is the digital quality really that much better now?
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One other interesting piece, especially related to old sports clips, is that what was transmitted in real time over radio waves or even early forms of cable internet was at a much high bandwidth and resolution than what was being recorded, both due to recording technology and even more importantly storage concerns (especially for anything recorded at home via something like a VCR recorder).
There are old sport clips that are completely unwatchable unless you know what is roughly happening in the clip already, but weren’t nearly that bad to watch in real time. It’s just the bad copy is the only thing that got recorded (or that is the only recording that made it to something like YouTube because NBC or whoever doesn’t have incentive to load their more pristine recording archive to YouTube if it even still exists on tape somewhere).
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