• to a Betacam camcorder, a Betacam tape, a Betacam video recorder or the format itself. All Betacam variants from (plain) analog recording Betacam to Betacam...
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    of Betacam reduced the demand for both industrial Beta and U-Matic equipment. For the professional and broadcast video industry, Sony derived Betacam from...
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    variations, Sony's DVCAM and Panasonic's DVCPRO, and Betacam SX, a lower-cost variant of Digital Betacam using MPEG-2 compression. One of the first digital...
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    Format) VERA (BBC) Professional cassette and cartridge based systems Betacam (Sony) Betacam SP (Sony) MII (Panasonic) U-matic (3/4") Standard definition digital...
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    (videocassette format) Betamax Compact Video Cassette Betacam Betacam SP Digital Betacam Betacam SX MPEG IMX HDCAM HDCAM SR M (videocassette format) MII...
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  • the country code top-level domain for Sint Maarten Betacam SX, a type of videotape for Betacam 1000BASE-SX, a fiber optic gigabit Ethernet standard...
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  • 333×480: VHS, Video8, Umatic 350×480: Betamax 420×480: Super Betamax, Betacam 460×480: Betacam SP, Umatic SP, NTSC (Over-The-Air TV) 580×480: Super VHS, Hi8,...
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  • (1979) 1/4" CVC (Funai) (1980) Betacam (Sony) (1982) VHS-C (JVC) (1982) HDVS (Sony) (1984) Video8 (Sony) (1986) Betacam SP (Sony) (1987) S-VHS (JVC) (1987)...
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    camcorders, Sony adapted the Betacam system with its Digital Betacam format in 1993, and in 1996 following it up with the cheaper Betacam SX and the 2000 MPEG...
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    recorders, also known as camcorders. Most notably, Sony developed the Betacam. This product was renowned for advancing the mobility and flexibility of...
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    high-definition video digital recording videocassette version of Digital Betacam introduced in 1997 that uses an 8-bit discrete cosine transform (DCT) compressed...
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  • by Panasonic in 1986 in competition with Sony's Betacam SP format. It was technically similar to Betacam SP, using metal-formulated tape loaded in the cassette...
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    wrapped around the head drum in the shape of a backwards C, used in the Betacam format, uses a wrap of 200 to 300 degrees where 180 to 270 degrees are...
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    than combined in composite space (D2/D3). Digital Betacam could play previous analog Betacam/Betacam SP tapes which by now had built a library archive...
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  • Sony's Betacam format, M used the same videocassette (and the same oxide-formulated magnetic tape stock) as VHS, much the same way that Betacam was designed...
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    the picture.) Recording is to a professional medium like some variant of Betacam or DVCPRO or Direct to disk recording or flash memory. If as in the latter...
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  • VHS used to store digital video launched in 1998 Digital Betacam, a digital version of Betacam that delivered digital recorded video Digital-S, a digital...
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    format competed with Sony's Digital Betacam in the professional and broadcast market, although in that area Sony's Betacam family ruled supreme, in contrast...
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    format created by JVC in 1995. It is a direct competitor to Sony's Digital Betacam. Its name was changed to D-9 in 1999 by the SMPTE. It was used to a small...
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    DP Mark Schulze videotapes golf pro Phil Mickelson at Callaway hand-held with a Sony Betacam SP camera, 2005...
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  • the late 1990s, delivering quality comparable to then-dominant analog Betacam hardware at a fraction of the cost. The VX1000 was based on Sony's earlier...
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  • Backglow Because There’s So Much More to Hear Beta Hi-Fi Beta/Plex Betacam Betacam SP Betacam SX Betacart Betamax Betamovie BetaScan BetaScanII BetaSkipScan...
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    obsolete format. Sony's professional-oriented component video format called Betacam, which was derived from Betamax, was used until 2016 when Sony announced...
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    History Project, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. 2008. p. 15. Betacam SX 8 mm Hi8, Digital8, Video8 DVD-Video"; "Definition of eight | Dictionary...
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    video formats and interfaces use this scheme: AVC-Intra 100 Digital Betacam Betacam SX DVCPRO50 and DVCPRO HD Digital-S CCIR 601 / Serial digital interface...
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    films emerged in the wake of the release of Sony's professional-grade Betacam and consumer-grade Betamovie camcorders in 1983. Many shot-on-video films...
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    features a higher video resolution (on par with professional-grade Digital Betacam) and also records audio digitally at 16-bit like CD. The most popular tape...
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  • example of a technically superior solution that failed due to market forces. Betacam, including Beta SP and DigiBeta, is a family of professional videotape...
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    History Interview with Denise Nicholas. by Julieanna L. Richardson (9 Betacam SP videocassettes (4:23:50)). Identification: A2007_177. The HistoryMakers...
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  • twelfth of a second. Older (pre-HDTV) recordings on video tape such as Betacam SP are often either in the form 480i60 or 576i50. These may be upconverted...
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