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The 8mm video format refers informally to three related videocassette formats. These are the original Video8 ( analog recording) format and its improved successor Hi8 ( analog video and analog audio but with provision for digital audio ), as well as a more recent digital recording format known as Digital8. Their user base consisted mainly of ...
Hi8. Released. 1999. Digital8 (or Di8) is a consumer digital recording videocassette for camcorders developed by Sony, and introduced in 1999. [1] It is technically identical to DV cassettes, but uses physical Hi8 tapes instead. The Digital8 format is a combination of the earlier analog Hi8 tape transport with the digital DV codec.
Sony CCD-VX3 (also known as CCD-VX1 in PAL markets and in Japan) is a Hi-8 camcorder noteworthy for being the first handheld camcorder to feature trichroic imaging. It was released to the North American market in 1992 at a street cost of about US$3500. The image is created using three 1/3" CCD chips by prismatically splitting the optics into ...
The Sony HDR-HC5, introduced in May 2007 ( MSRP $1099 US), was the third DV tape HDV CMOS camcorder to support 1080i. The 1⁄3 in (8.5 mm) CMOS sensor has a resolution of 2MP and interlaced 4MP for digital still pictures and captures video at 1440×1080 interlaced. Digital photos can be stored on a Sony Memory Stick.
Handycam is a line of camcorders made by Sony and introduced in 1985. Handycam was first used as the name of the first Video8 camcorder in 1985, replacing Sony's previous line of Betamax-based models of camcorders. The name was intended to emphasize the "handy" palm size nature of the camera, made possible by the then-new miniaturized tape format.
The Sony DCR-VX1000 was a DV camcorder released by Sony in 1995. [ 1] It became iconic for its use in many pornographic films as well as skateboarding films in the late 90s and early 2000s and therefore is an important part in the history of skateboarding culture. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The VX1000 was based on Sony's earlier VX1 (PAL) and VX3 (NTSC) Hi8 ...
Ruvi. The Sony Ruvi is an analog video and still video camera released in 1998. The Ruvi was considerably smaller than any other camcorder available at the time, at 124 mm × 66 mm × 44.1 mm and 380 g. This made the Ruvi small enough to keep inside a shirt pocket. Ruvi is an abbreviation of Recording Unit by Video .
U-matic or 3⁄4-inch Type E Helical Scan[ 1][ 2] or SMPTE E[ 3] is an analogue recording videocassette format first shown by Sony in prototype in October 1969, and introduced to the market in September 1971. It was among the first video formats to contain the videotape inside a cassette, as opposed to the various reel-to-reel or open-reel ...