"And what a change from the grainy television transmissions of the first moon landing, 43 years ago this summer"
The pictures I believe were beamed from the moon in high definition and recorded on tape. Since public TV could not broadcast the images directly, NASA used a normal TV camera pointed at one of their high res displays to produce the image that was broadcast to the public. Sadly the original high res tapes have been lost.
"And what a change from the grainy television transmissions of the first moon landing, 43 years ago this summer"
The pictures I believe were beamed from the moon in high definition and recorded on tape. Since public TV could not broadcast the images directly, NASA used a normal TV camera pointed at one of their high res displays to produce the image that was broadcast to the public. Sadly the original high res tapes have been lost.