Beta SP came in two cassette sizes, with the smaller version providing 20 minutes of recording on a professional, shoulder-mounted camcorder. Sony later introduced BetaSX, an MPEG-2 digital format, ...

Broadcast camcorders based on the Betacam SP tape format started at about $10,000 for the cheap “industrial” model, increasing to more than $30,000 for the ones the TV news camera ops were running ...

In 1986 Betacam was superseded by the upgraded Betacam SP that used metal-formulated rather than ferric ... So if we had to chose a Betacam camera, what would it be? The first camcorder, the first CCD ...

For the past ten years the NFL has used Sony’s analog Betacam SP format. The Betacam SX gear adopted by the NFL includes the DNV-5 recorder/player; DNW-9WS camcorder; DNW-A25 laptop editor/recorder ...

You may like Panasonic To Ship New 4K 60p 10-Bit Camcorders In March TV Tech Announces Winners ... The cartel covered the two most popular professional videotape formats at the time — Betacam SP and ...

Sony’s Betacam and Betacam SP, the focus of our previous decade ... more reliable for frame-accurate editing. The first DV camcorder, Sony’s VX1000, was introduced in 1995. It looked and felt like a ...

My encounter with Welles in the last days of his life centered on a common interest: Sony’s new one-piece camcorder, the Betacam. It had just come to market and Welles, always the genius ...