Recording formats

ENG format cameras

The portable video/recorder broadcast camera was developed in the early 1980s. Amongst the many technological innovations in the design since then has been the replacement of pick-up tubes with CCDs, a move from analogue recording to digital recording combined with a move from analogue signal processing to digital processing (although a CCD is an analogue device). The introduction of television stereo audio was followed by the development of the dual-format camera in response to the move towards a 16:9 widescreen television system. One-piece camera/recorders have always been available but two-piece camera/recorders allow the user a choice of which recording format to attach to the camera. A variety of digital ...

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