The HDVS range was launched in April 1984, with the HDC-100 camera, which was the world's first commercially available HDTV camera and HDV-1000 video recorder, with its companion HDT-1000 processor/TBC, and HDS-1000video switcher all working in the 1125-linecomponent video format withinterlaced video and a5:3 aspect ratio. The first system consisting of a monitor, camera and VTR was sold by Sony in 1985 for $1.5 million, and the first HDTV production studio, Captain Video, was opened in Paris.[2]
Thehelical scan VTR (the HDV-100) usedmagnetic tape similar to 1"type C videotape foranalog recording. Sony in 1988[3][4] unveiled a new HDVS digital line, including a reel-to-reeldigital recording VTR (the HDD-1000) that useddigital signals between the machines for dubbing but the primary I/O remainedanalog signals. The Sony HDVS HDC-300 camera was also introduced. The large HDD-1000 unit was housed in a 1-inch reel-to-reel transport, and because of the high tape speed needed, had a limit of 1-hour per reel. By this time, the aspect ratio of the system had been changed to16:9.[5] Sony, owner of Columbia Pictures/Tri-Star, would start to archive feature films on this format, requiring an average of two reels per movie. There was also a portable videocassette recorder (the HDV-10) for the HDVS system, using the "UniHi" format ofvideocassette using 1/2" wide tape.[6] The tape housing is similar in appearance to Sony's D1/D2 Standard Definition Digital VTRs, but recorded analog HD. The small cassette size limited recording time to about 63 min.
The price of the HDD-1000 and its required companion HDDP-1000 video processor in 1988 was US$600,000. The metal evaporate tape (tape whose magnetic material was evaporated and deposited onto the tape in a vacuum chamber using physical vapor deposition) cost US$2500.00 per hour of tape and each reel weighed nearly 10 pounds.[7] The high price of the system limited its adoption severely, selling just several dozen systems and making its adoption largely limited tomedical,aerospace engineering, andanimation applications. In 1986, HDVS systems cost $1.5 million, and 30-40 were sold until then. Sony HDVS systems made video with a total of 1125 (horizontal) lines, and 1035 active lines of resolution.[8][9][10]
The Sony HDL-5800 had a price of over 56,000 US dollars[11][12]
The Sony HDVS system was used in the production of a 5-min feature film aboutHalley's Comet in 1986, titled "Arrival", and shown in US theatres later that year after being transferred to 35mm film.[13][14]
Montreux Jazz Festival in 1991 was recorded using the Sony HDVS video system. Four HDC-300 cameras in 1125-line format (1035i visible, close to 1080i today), 60 fps, and one Sony HDC-500 3 CCD prototype HDVS camera were used. The five cameras were connected to a 7-input HDS-1000Tswitcher and the live mix was recorded to an HDD-1000 Digital 1" VTR.[15]
The HDVS brand and logo was still used by Sony since 1997 as "Digital HDVS" on their digital high-definitionHDCAM-format cameras such as the HDW-750, HDW-F900, HDC-1550, "Power HAD" camera Sony HSC-300 Series,[17] andXDCAM camera PDW-850,[18] PXW-X500.[19] By 2022, HDVS branded cameras have been discontinued and new camera models released don't have the HDVS logo.
Analog Sony HDVS equipment. From left to right: HD videodisc player HDL-2000 above two HDV-10 UniHi VTRs, HDV-1000 analog reel to reel VTR with HDT-1000 processor underneath, two HDD-1000 digital reel to reel VTRs with HDDP-1000 processors underneath, HDC-500 camera above HDCO-300 camera control unit, two HDM-90 monitors, HDM-140 monitor, two HDCS-350 HD camera signal processors, HDS-1000T switcher at the bottom
HDD-1000 Digital 1" Type C VTR (Wide band (30 MHz) Y, PB, PR) with BVH-3000 like operation and appearance. It used two sets of separate flying erase, record and video heads[26] with a higher linear tape speed than Type C videotape, of 80.5 cm/sec and a writing speed at the heads of 51.5m/sec, 30 MHz luma and 15 MHz chroma bandwidth, uses HD-1D series tape
HDDP-1000 VTR Signal Processor (8-bit digital, required by the HDD-1000 for operation)
HDV-1000 Analog VTR (based on Sony's BVH-2000 1" Type C standard-definition VTR, unlike most Type C VTRs it used separate video and video record heads.)[27] It had a linear tape speed of 48.31 cm/sec and a writing speed at the heads, of 25.9m/sec, 20 MHz luma and 10 MHz chroma bandwidth and a 63-min recording time with 11.75 inch tape reels, could use the same conventional tape as the BVH-2000 type C VTR.[28]
HDT-1000 TBC/Signal Processor (required by the HDV-1000 for operation)
HDL-5800 Video Disc Recorder, same bandwidths as the HDL-2000, 3 min record time per side of disc in CAV mode, 10 mins per side in CLV mode, and for read only (pre recorded/pressed/replicated) discs, 8 min playback time per side in CAV mode, and 15 mins per side in CLV mode. 20 MHz luma and 6 MHz chroma bandwidth.[30] Had a price of over 50,000 US dollars and requires optical discs to be placed in a cartridge.[31]
HDN-22000 NTSC Down-Converter
HDV-10 Videocassette Recorder (UNIHI), with a tape speed of 119.7mm/sec and a writing speed at the heads of 21.4m/sec with HCT-63 cassette, 20 MHz bandwidth for Y component video signal/luma, 7 MHz bandwidth for YB and YR component video signals/chroma
HCT-63 UNIHI videocassette, with 465m of 1/2 inch magnetic tape and a recording time of 63 minutes with HDV-10 recorder
HD-1D Series High Quality Video Tape (1-inch) for use with the HDD- 1000, with metal particle formulation, similar to type C videotape, has a 63 minute record time with 11.75 inch reels holding 3,080 meters of tape
HDIE-100 HD camera image enhancer
HDIP-100 HD camera image enhancer power unit
HDKF-508 Frame Memory Board (8 frames)
HDSC-1000 Sync Converter
HKDF-504 Frame Memory Board (4 frames)
LBX-1000 Lightbox for use with the HDST-100T Telop Camera
EBR System, Digital Electron Beam Recording (EBR) System (Video Tape to Film,Film recorder)
HDS-1000 Switcher
HDST-1000T Telop Camera (Saticon)
Optical Fiber Transmission System(G/B/R analog component video (signals for Green, Blue and Red portions of images with Green for sync,[32][33] a kind of RGB (component) video[34] Analog audio x2; AES/EBU x6)
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