A New Digital Video Tape Recording System for Professional Use

A new component digital videotape recording format for 525/60 and 625/50 television systems is introduced and described. Development concept for the new format is discussed and includes the technical performance and operational features that were incorporated to satisfy a wide variety of broadcast and professional video recording applications. The recording method, signal processing, and videotape track patterns are illustrated and specified, and the system signals to which the format interfaces are listed and described. The new format introduces a new level of economy and cost effectiveness for digital video tape recording and many of the reasons are highlighted in a discussion of the videotape transport and cassette. Bit rate reduction is utilized, and performance and operational requirements affecting the selection of compression techniques are outlined. The selected bit rate reduction method and its characteristics are discussed and summarized in various tables included. The paper concludes with discussion of variable speed playback, and error handling and correction, and further summarizes their influence on selection of the bit rate reduction techniques.

Published

1995-09

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00493

ISBN

978-1-61482-923-2