Infinite Summer

Is this mentioned anywhere in the book itself? There are discussions between Marathe and Steeply where Steeply wonders about the subject of the Entertainment. Wouldn't they be able to set up a camera in a room to take photos of a TP playing the Entertainment? One a second or whatever.

I'm not sure that a photo would accurately represent what it is about the samizdat that makes people go bonkers - namely, the use of the 'wobbly' neo-natal lens effect combined with Joelle apologizing over and over.

There's questions about whether the Entertainment uses holography. Could a photograph of a holograph provide meaningful data? I don't know much about optics.

You may be overthinking this. )

Did anyone see the Monty Python bit with the world's funniest joke that was read to the enemy to kill them?

This was my question as well - why they couldn't just record it with a camera and then make duplicates from that copy. The way I figure it, since Himself was such an optics man, only a pristine copy would do - anytime you record something and watch it, the quality degrades, maybe not enough for a casual observer to notice but certainly for a film person to notice, and that could mean the difference re: all the optical effects really grabbing you and keeping you in front of the screen.