Jarrah White?
It wasn't so much the signal was so poor, but that the camera used on Apollo 11 black and white and the format conversion method, pointing a television camera at a monitor, degraded the quality. Here is an excellent PDF that gives some detail on the technology used and the progression on each mission
What about the lasers, why not film them with the tv.
Some of the tv images are really terrific, there is an upside.