re: Two best technological inventions in sports broadcasting?

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Yeah, a good one too. Watching 80s and 90s games on youtube... eeesh..

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While the picture wasn't great, the picture wasn't as bad as it appears on today's digital screens. The way the cathode rays would scan the lines and render the picture doesn't reproduce well on modern equipment. Add to that, you're looking at remastered tape recordings where there a lot of degradation. Older video games are much the same way. If you play an old Nintendo game on a digital screen the graphics are actually worse. If you find an old CRT screen they'll look better because of how the colors blend and the the edges of the pixels won't be as harsh.

What you see on Youtube is the equivalent of watching a copy of a copy on a non-native platform. Don't get me wrong, the picture wasn't good, but it's not as bad as the surviving recordings make it seem.