Why the Apollo footage was so poor?

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Postby Lowtone » Fri Dec 17, 2010 6:38 am

dominicbeesley wrote:The BBC, especially for the moon pictures also made an electronic 525 to 625 line converter this got the pictures from America via Goonhilly Down and passed them on to BBC, ITV and the rest of the EBU countries.

And France broadcast it in 819 line :lol: :arrow:

I don't really know, it was in black and white but the second channel was in 625 line, so was it broadcast on both of only one of those?

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http://www.ina.fr/sciences-et-techniques/espace/video/CPF86637749/apollo-xi.fr.html

ah ! he said : camera on the moon gives the picture to apollo, the pictures goes to the USA. It is converted to NTSC 525 lines and then givent to Europe, and converted to PAL 625 line, and in Paris they converted it to SECAM 625 line for the 2nd channel and to B-W 819 line, for the first.

:lol:
a lot of conversions

edit :
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/one-giant-blunder-for-mankind-how-nasa-lost-moon-pictures/2006/08/04/1154198328978.html oh crap :x

http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/pasa/on_eagles_wings.pdf interesting but too complicated for me

edit ( again )
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Apollo_11_Tapes_Report.pdf

I read all that, it is a-ma-zing ! They really search for the actual tapes, phone employees, find video recorders etc...
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Postby AncientBrit » Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:04 am

It would make a good TV programme either as a documentary or drama-doc,

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