Recording Media and Practices in Broadcast Television

Motion pictures were well established long before television, and programs on film gave broadcasters their only alternative to direct live transmissions to the public in the early developmental stages. From a bold start in 1956, videotape has surged rapidly ahead to give broadcasters a near-ideal television recording medium. As the proponents of videotape strive to make this medium less costly and more versatile, there are some who already concede film's defeat. But other, perhaps more astute, observers of the television scene insist that the competition has only just begun, and it is by no means certain that videotape will emerge the victor. Drastic changes in conventional motion-picture production practices will have to be made to enable film to compete successfully with the increasingly sophisticated methods of program production on tape.

Print ISSN

0361-4573

Published

1971-08

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J05770