Second Generation HDTV Switcher

High-definition television systems were first shown at the International Broadcast Convention, Brighton, U.K., in the early 1980s but have since had only limited impact in specialist areas due to the size, weight, and consequential cost of high-definition processing, storage, and transmission. In Japan today at least 12 hours of high-definition material are broadcast per day to more than one-half million receivers using a compression technology known as multiple sub-Nyquist encoding or MUSE. There is now a growing demand from Japanese broadcasters and program producers to capture their original material using high-definition systems. Sony is responding by introducing a new generation of high-definition products. The range of products includes studio cameras, portable cameras, studio videotape recorders (VTRs), portable VTRs, digital multi effects, and digital switchers all suitable for live, production, and post-production use.

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

1997-12

Content type

Information

DOI

10.5594/J17158