D6 HDTV VTR isSMPTEvideocassette standard. A D6VTR canrecord and playbackHDTVvideo uncompressed. The only D6 VTR product is thePhilips, nowThomson'sGrass Valley's Media Recorder, model DCR 6024, also called theD6 Voodoo VTR. The VTR was a joint project between Philips Digital Video Systems of Germany andToshiba inJapan. The tape deck module was designed and made by Philips inWeiterstadt,Germany (formerly BoschFernseh), and thedigital processor module designed and made by Toshiba. Since there is nodata compression, after 20 tape copies of multi generations there is no noticeable loss of quality. As a very high-end, costly system about 70 were sold to high-endpost houses from about 2000 to 2005. The VTR had a data record option. The data module could record and play back 2kDPX files at 6 frames per second over aHIPPI connection. The VTR came in a data only model, or with a switch module, so the record deck could be used for both video and data recording. The tape deck was also sold stand alone as agiga bit recorder to record and playback raw data. Toshiba made the video tape for the VTR. The high price of the video tape limited the use of the VTR.
Tape format D-6 19 mm tape cassette housing, SMPTE 277/278M
Also marketed under the name "Digital Voodoo"
The tape cassette housing looks like a 19 mmD1 orD2 cassette, but inserting these older standard definition tape cassettes would be rejected by the VTR.
Records and playback of 1 Gbit/s uncompressed data—the only real-time uncompressed HD videotape format marketed (the more ubiquitous SonyHDCAM,Panasonic D5-HD and Sony XDCAM HD/422 all used compression)
