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Old 07-19-2012, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by jmdocs View Post
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 for posterity knowing that the videotape would probably be reused. And you're right, my DVD copy of this program is pretty low quality.

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