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 ...

In 1986 Betacam was superseded by the upgraded Betacam SP that used metal-formulated rather than ferric ... so what is crucial to our story is that with Betacam, Sony moved the recorder into the ...

Broadcast camcorders based on the Betacam SP tape format started at about $10,000 for the cheap ... along with “plain DV,” just in a better camera/recorder configuration. These units put much better ...