Remember great TV shows were taped over, too.
I had a collection of original 1” broadcast tapes from interviews with seminal IBM figures that I used for a documentary I was making. These were of great historical significance and when I took early retirement from IBM Research, I BEGGED the producer to save the tapes. But the tapes were big and cumbersome and I don’t know what happened to my 1” broadcast editing machines. Later I heard that the tapes were erased and taped over. I had been extremely careful to NOT make all the embarrassing stuff public and I’ll bet that fear of that, more than cost or bulk, let them disappear. All that’s left are the window dubs I took away and put up on my site, properly edited, of course. Really tragic.
Yes but this was special video and the machine that could play that video was dismantled many years ago.