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Current Talk '12 I / Re: 1968: The Great Year of Two Daily Doses of Dark Shadows!
« on: June 28, 2012, 04:03:34 PM »I believe a kinescope is a crude copy made by pointing a camera at a monitor, or TV during a broadcast, in case the original is lost. Would any station that had rights to the real broadcast show an inferior copy just to have it at a different time?
I never remember the delayed broadcast being in the fuzzy kineoscope version. It was always crystal clear (well, as crystal clear could be back then with rodors and antennaes and scraggliness happening when my mom turned on the vacuum cleaner or the mix-master or a plane flew overhead).
I think. Hey! It's not like I'm a nine-year-old anymore! I forget some things.
The kinescopes were made specifically for affiliates that wanted to show DS at a different time. And I know that whenever I originally watched DS other than when it was on its rightful day at 4pm, it was always the kinescope that was shown. But now that you bring it up, Gerard, they didn't seem as blurry as some of them are today. I wonder why that was?