Posted by Martin Heffels on 07/24/06 08:59

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:47:52 GMT, "doc" <doc@anywhere.com> wrote:

>So here's the delima . . anyone know of an inexpensive newer BetaCAM
>recorder (under $1,000) that puts down timecode other than all the used
>stuff on the market that keeps going up in price as the number of units
>continue to disappear from the market?

Sony has a couple of decks which can play back all Betacam formats, but
they are $60k+ so not in your budget I reckon.

>Or anyone know of a smiliar tape
>format that delivers decently high quality video that has time code

DVCAM. And you can put 2 hours on a tape.

[...]
>MORE INFO
>And we've thought
>about the idea of even capturing some kind of high quality MPEG2 format on
>the fly by external camera means but are a loss on this arena because we
>don't know enough about it.

You got XDCAM which records to optical, but you need a seperate player for
that. How about converting to DVD?

cheers

-martin-
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