• cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    Video tape used to be insanely expensive, so it was very common to reuse the tapes. Unfortunately, that meant that a lot of the early TV shows were lost. Back then the only way of recording video at home was on film, so it was very rare for anyone to have a copy of them.