1986 Shuttle Challenger Disaster News Survey

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This item includes 24 news broadcasts over 11 days that survey the TV broadcast news coverage of the Jan. 28, 1986 Shuttle Challenger Disaster. Most of the major broadcasters are included here starting with a CNN Headline News broadcast on January 23rd that first mentions the delays that continued to plague this flight for many days.

These are files digitized from original Betamax VCR recordings made live by Dave Dalton at the time of broadcast.

Details of the files:

Playback VCR - Sony SL-HF400 Betamax

Digitizer - Hauppauge PVR2

Editing SW - TMPG Video Mastering Works (crop artifacts, square pixels, progressive scan)

Container - MP4

Codec - AVC (H.264 or MPEG-4 part 10)

Dimensions - 640x480

Pixels - 1:1 (square)

Bitrate - 2500kbps constant

Framerate - 29.97

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Internet Archive, in Vintage commercials

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