What about delivering your finished story as a file (in uncompressed codec) on some kind of disk? I guess at least some of the HD stations broadcast from servers and not from tape machines, so in stead of capturing your D5 or HD CAM tape to disk for broadcasting they just import your file.
Given the very low prices of disks this looks very convenient and cost effective to me for the production house AND the broadcaster. You don’t have to rent a $$$ deck just for mastering and no conversion is needed to a compressed tape based format like HD CAM. Next step of course will be delivering your program by uploading it to an ingest/broadcast server (Dutch public broadcasting is experimenting with this at the moment) but broad implementation might take some more time.
Anyway, anybody allowed to deliver a disk and not a D5 or HD CAM tape?
Hans Vernhout
Director / lighting cameraman
The Netherlands