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this is the new cheap Sony SR HD-VTR
well, I guess we all might be doing 4:4:4 with our Kona 2 and Kona 3 cards, sooner than we thought !!!
Sony HDW-1800 – under $40,000. Amazing
https://www.creativevideo.co.uk/public/view_item_cat.php?catalogue_number=sony_hdw-1800
Bob Zelin (I got this via the AVID-L2 list).
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Bob,
From the specs this is HDCAM only not SR.
Tony Salgado
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Sony recognises that your needs as a programme maker will vary depending upon the type of programme being made. This has driven the development of a multi-format high definition product offering, including HDV for entry-level HD operation, HDCAM for mainstream and prestige productions and HDCAM SR for productions where only the ultimate quality will suffice.
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Does this paragraph not give you the impression that it does not playback HDCAM SR – or is this my mis-interpretation. This is not a Sony blurb, it’s from this companies site – so I may be confused (as I often am). The above statement makes me believe that this is a multi format hi definition product.bob Zelin
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Bob,
It is all listed on the specifications page which states the playback and recording format are HDCAM not HDCAM SR.
The paragraph you refer to is just more generic marketing hype.
Tony Salgado
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[tony salgado] “It is all listed on the specifications page which states the playback and recording format are HDCAM not HDCAM SR.”
Yep, it appears that way, even right below the paragraph that Bob describes:
The HDW-1800 operates at the frame rates used for prestige and mainstream content creation and distribution. It offers HDCAM recording and playback at 1080/50i, 1080/59.94i, 1080/25P, 1080/29.97P, 1080/23.98P and 1080/24P.
And from the Specs page:
Recording Format: HDCAM (1080/50i, 59.94i, 25P, 29.97P, 23.98P, 24P)
Replay Formats: HDCAM (1080/50i, 59.94i, 25P, 29.97P, 23.98P, 24P)Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
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Typical Sony slight-of-hand ! Ha ha !! It worked… got OUR attention !
Bart
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[Bart Harrison] “Typical Sony slight-of-hand ! Ha ha !! It worked… got OUR attention !”
Well, after I realized it had the 1800 designation, that should have warned me. I have the UVW-1800 Beta Machine which of course does “everything” the BVW series can do except edit, insert, slow mo, record to Beta (oxide) tape, jog, shuttle and a few other things. But other than that, it’s “exactly” like the BVW machines!
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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People, People please
All you have to do is read the specs it is right there in black and white.
No deception by Sony just marketing hype to only mislead those who read into something which is not really there.
The specs cannot lie.
HDCAM is not HDCAM SR period .
Tony Salgado
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[tony salgado] “All you have to do is read the specs it is right there in black and white.
No deception by Sony just marketing hype to only mislead those who read into something which is not really there.”
It’s like the engineers always tell me at NAB, “The marketing guys tell everyone what the product can do, but they never ask us.”
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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You know one question I have about this deck is why is it only available in Europe? I tried looking it up in the States and I don’t see it anywhere. Is this even going to “cross the Pond?”
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Hi All,
I look through the specs & it indicated RS-422A protocol.
I take it as this VTR cannot handle Insert editing mode.
Am I right about this?Cheers,
Ben
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