kinescoping
/ˈkɪnəˌskoʊpɪŋ/
noun
- The process or practice of recording a television program by filming a video monitor, used especially in early television.
- Engineers developed kinescoping to allow time-delayed broadcasts across different time zones.
- Kinescoping was the only way to save live TV shows before videotape was invented.
- The museum has a collection of kinescoping equipment from the 1950s.
verb
- Present participle of kinescope: recording (a television program) by filming a video monitor.
- The technician spent hours kinescoping old episodes for the archive.
- Back then, kinescoping a program required careful synchronization of the camera and the monitor.
- They are kinescoping the show tonight for international distribution.