You would have known that Sony’s Betamax lost out to JVC’s VHS in the home video entertainment format war in the 1980s. That didn’t stop Sony from venturing into another ‘Beta’ format, namely, Betacam SP or Beta SP. SP stands for Superior Quality Betacam SP History Sony introduced this analog video camera format in 1986. […]
HDV stands for High-Definition Video. It should not be confused with HD video. HDV is the high-definition version as applied to the DV magnetic tape format. One of its selling points is HD video can be recorded on an inexpensive DV cassette tape. HDV is a video format developed jointly by JVC, Sharp Canon, and […]
What is a Baby Video Camera Monitor? A baby video camera monitor, as its name suggests, is a camera system that lets you check on your baby from a different location. It is also called a baby monitor with a camera, which differentiates it from the audio-only version. It is especially useful if you’re in […]
HD DVD stands for High-Definition Digital Versatile Disc. At the initial stage, it was called Advanced Optical Disc (AOD). The disc size is similar to that of the DVD – 12 centimeters in diameter. It uses the same substrate ( internal construction) as a DVD. The HD DVD technology was pioneered by Toshiba, hoping it […]
A Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) resembles a CD or DVD. What makes it stand out is its storage capacity on a single disc. According to the book Light and Optics by Kyle Kirkland, the HVD would have the capacity to store 200 movies on a single disc. In other words, the HVD would have 200 […]
DV stands for Digital Video. The video format is the result of the cooperation between about 60 electronics giants such as Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Canon, and Sharp, among others. It is a tape format released in 1996. Before the advent of HD video, DV was popularly used for consumer and professional video production. DV is […]
The MicroMV format was created by Sony in 2001. It’s a Sony proprietary tape format like Video8, Hi-8, and Digital8. The MicroMV tape is, however, much smaller than Sony’s 8mm tapes and MiniDV tapes. MicroMV uses digital encoding similar to that of DVD. Recordings are encoded in MPEG-2. As such, it’s often called the tape […]
The DVCPRO format is also known as D7 among video industry professionals. It was developed by Panasonic and Broadcast Television Systems (BTS)/Philips. The format was targeted towards the professional video and TV broadcast markets. It saw popular use in the electronic newsgathering (ENG)field. It was released in 1995, a year before Sony released the DVCAM […]
DVCAM stands for Digital Video Camera. It is a variant of the DV format developed by Sony. Introduced in 1996, many regard it as the pro version of DV. DVCAM was meant as a competitor to DVCPRO, introduced by Panasonic a year before in 1995. The format proved popular. By 1999, 100,000 units were sold. […]
AC-3 stands for Audio Codec -3. The market name for AC-3 is Dolby Digital as it is a creation of Dolby Laboratories. The standard is laid down by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) in ATSC Doc. A/52A. It was released in 1991. It comes with the .ac3 file extension. As a lossy codec AC-3 reduces […]