White House officials worried the tape may undo the contrite image Clinton carefully built over the past two weeks with frequent public apologies about his "indefensible" and "wrong" relationship with the former White House intern.
Steven Sasson invented the digital camera itself, starting at Kodak in the 1970s with an eight-and-a-half-pound box connected to a magnetic tape drive and a TV set, which produced a .01 megapixel image.