[Campion]

“So India just landed on the moon. Anyone think it's weird how the video quality is significantly worse than the U.S. footage from the 1960s?” asked u/SAT0725, who broached the topic on r/Conspiracy.

These people are such idiots. The "good footage" from the 1960's was FILM, which had to be physically brought back from the moon. You first saw it on the nightly network TV news about a week after the astronauts splashed down, because it had to be DEVELOPED in a lab.

The live TV from Apollo 11 was terrible. Initially it was just blobs of white on a dark background. The live TV from Apollo 12 was nonexistent, because the astronauts accidentally pointed their TV camera at the sun and burned it out minutes after the moonwalk started. Apollo 13 didn't land. The live TV from Apollo 14 through 17 was at least watchable, not crisp and clear, but watchable.

Note that all of this was analog TV; digital video basically didn't exist yet.

People need to talk to a science geek who actually lived through this stuff and remembers it, i.e., a science geek in their 60's or older ... like me.

[BBB333]

“The live TV from Apollo 11 was terrible. Initially it was just blobs of white on a dark background.”

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There is a GREAT movie about the TV transmission of the 1st moon walk called:

The Dish

It’s an Australian movie (the TV transmissions came from a very large dish receiver in Australia).

Very nice and family oriented.

[cgbg]

Meet some real science geeks:

https://www.aulis.com/investigation.htm

[srmanuel]

The live TV from Apollo 11 was terrible by today’s standards but for a 9-year old kid to watch live TV of a man walking on the surface of the moon was mind blowing and such a remarkable achievement in 1969 it stands alone in world history

The next thing that will eclipse walking on the moon will be a man walking on Mars, I hope I’m alive to see it

[NorthMountain]

The ignorance and stupidity on this forum is really disturbing.

[DennisR]

So it looks like they have gotten to you too! /s

[bk1000]

“The “good footage” from the 1960’s was FILM, which had to be physically brought back from the moon.”

True, they were using a Hassleblad film camera for stills, but the smearing you see from moving bright subjects is video. The camera image sensor tubes of that era would get overloaded with bright lights and smear the light leaving ‘trails’. That doesn’t happen with film. The real trick is how they transmitted video from the moon in real time back then. I was such a believer, but have recently become a skeptic.