What are the networks accepting for HD?

[Shane Ross]

Who’s accepting HDV? I’d be shocked if that was true…you can’t master to that format. Can’t lay back to it and have program start at 1:00;00;00. XDCAM? Haven’t heard that either. And the ProRes 422 codec is just that, a CODEC…not a tape format.

What networks are you talking about here? In my experience the networks that I work with only accept HDCAM, D5 and HDCAM SR. One was considering accepting DVCPRO HD, but have since excluded it.

Shane

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[John Foley]

Wasn’t it recently announced here that FOX had purchased a ton of DVCPRO HD cameras? I think it was a bunch of HVX200’s? That must mean that at least they are utilizing DVCPRO HD?

[Steve Braker]

That wouldn’t surprise me, but it has nothing to do with delivery formats. If you need to know what the deliverable is you need to ask your contact at a specific outlet. Or poke around their websites. BBC and PBS put out loads of info, I imagine that’s less common in the commercial world.

[David Smith]

Perhaps Kenyon was asking about acquisition formats, not delivery?

[Chris Borjis]

I know the OutDoor Channel accepts HDCAM (preferred) and will also take DVCPRO-HD.

It would be neat if cable companies and local stations would give specs for mpeg2 transport streams so we could deliver them electronically like DGS does.

[Stuart Simpson]

The BBC are currently using HDCAM only as a delivery format.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/dq/pdf/tv/hd_summary_delivery_formats_v1_4.pdf

Acquisition is more relaxed, the BBC tend to take programes on a case by case basis. Good document here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/dq/pdf/tv/HDBookv01_02.pdf

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