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Posted by Bill Farnsworth on 10/21/62 11:45
"Steve King" wrote >
> No, you just had to play every take to confirm no drop outs ;-) At
> least BetaSP was better than 3/4 inch, which was better than 1 inch,
> which was better than 2 inch, which was not nearly as good as 16 mm.
> When I talked to my editor, whose DSR-11 generated the MiniDV tape,
> he said look at the video. There will be problems on at least one
> frame in the region of the audio drop out. He was right. Five out
> of six affected frames had several places on the frame with empty
> pixels (little square blocks of emptiness).
>
> Steve King
Well, you are sorta right. 3/4" wasn't better than 1". It's the other
way around. Even though one model did have a handle on top, 1"
portability really sucked. ( I lugged a BVH-500 up and down the Great
Wall of China and around the Caribbean)
Early Betacam (oxide) had the issues. So did tape manufacturers. High
mileage heads and poor maintenance contributed. But by 1995, it was
sorted out. Only the lazy had BIG problems.
Even though IVC did have a 1" A format, it never caught on like the
later Sony backed 1" C which came out six years after 3/4".
BetacamSP was, and still is far superior to 3/4SP.
I'm betting that in less than a week, the tape formats for network
broadcast EFP and ENG will most likely be given the death blow with
the acceptance of Sony's Disc based XDCam 2/3" SD and XDCam 1/2" HD
formats. (They ain't NOTHING like consumer and pro-sumer disc formats)
Looks like it's time to hock the farm ........ again.
Bill F.
www.billfarnsworthvideo.com
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