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posted 06-02-2003 04:35 PM
   
I purchased the complete downlink sets of Apollo 14, 15 and 16 at the Collectspace booth during the DC show.Since it has been raining most of the weekend, I have been watching the Apollo 16 DVD's. I have been very impressed with the quantity and the quality of the disks. It is wonderful is see Young and Duke on the surface. See equipment that has come up in auctions lately actually being used on the lunar surface. They are excellent for research and as well as entertainment. I know many of you have picked these DVD's up and that this news ins't new, but they have been so well done that i just wanted to add my compliments to the makers too. ------------------
Larry McGlynn
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posted 06-02-2003 06:20 PM
I agree that the sets of Apollo DVDs from Spacecraftfilms are essential purchases for any space enthusiast. One small note of regret (and this is in no way a criticism of the DVDs or their producers, who have performed a real service to history): it is obvious to anyone who watched the transmissions live, particularly the best quality colour transmissions of Apollo 16, that the video tapes have deteriorated over the last 30 years. That is not simply a "rose-tinted spectacles" argument. The loss of colour and definition is all too real in places, when compared with selected extracts of EVA TV preserved in documentaries which have been repeated in the home video era. So, anyone who wasn't around in 1972 who thinks the transmissions on the Apollo 16 DVD set are incredible....just imagine what it was like watching it live and seeing the pictures when they were "fresh." And bear in mind that by the time I got to see the "live" images on BBC TV, they had been bounced off at least one more satellite, with the inevitable loss of quality inherent in satellite transmissions of the time.(But perhaps the superiority of the British PAL colour system over NTSC compensated!)Some parts of the original Apollo video tapes have unfortunately deteriorated to the point that the "gaps" have been filled by "Kinescope" 16mm film of the original transmissions. To be honest, some of those Kinescope excerpts are closer in quality and colour fidelity to my recollection of the live pictures, and at a few points I found myself disappointed that the DVDs had gone back to the original video. But let's not be negative - it's only ten or so years ago that the very existence of the original video tapes was denied by NASA. I don't know how NASA managed to "misplace" those tapes, but I believe it was only in the last few years that they were located. Does anyone know any more about this, and how the tapes were "rediscovered"? | |
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