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HD videotape
Since publication of the first edition of this book there has been a dramatic decline in the use of videotape. Much legacy SD videotape equipment is still in use, but SD requirements are now fairly easily met by hard drive and flash media. Videotape is still in fairly wide use for HD, and still retains a few advantages over hard drive and flash media. Also, several compression systems originally devised for videotape have successfully made the transition into hard drive and flash media.
For SD, refer to Composite NTSC and PAL: Legacy Video Systems.
Table 43.1 summarizes digital videotape formats for HD.
Table 43.1. Digital videotape formats for HD. The D-6 format is “uncompressed” (although subject to chroma subsampling); all ...
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