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Mike*SC · 07-10-2008, 01:30 AM

Television shows are filmed in a wide variety of ways (16mm film, 35mm film, straight video, hi def video, etc.), so there's no one answer. But budgets are budgets, and especially back in (for instance) the 1970s, when most people got their television signals over the air and into television sets that were incredibly crude by today's standards, there was no reason to spend money on detail and quality that would be lost in broadcast. Nobody could have foreseen that these shows would live on on a higher definition format thirty years later!

07-10-2008, 01:30 AM	#4 of 33
MikeSC Member Join Date: Jun 2005* Local Time: 07:43 PM Local Date: 08-29-2008 Posts: 168	Re: Why TV productions are recorded this way? Television shows are filmed in a wide variety of ways (16mm film, 35mm film, straight video, hi def video, etc.), so there's no one answer. But budgets are budgets, and especially back in (for instance) the 1970s, when most people got their television signals over the air and into television sets that were incredibly crude by today's standards, there was no reason to spend money on detail and quality that would be lost in broadcast. Nobody could have foreseen that these shows would live on on a higher definition format thirty years later!