At NAB2003, Sony Broadcast Professional plans to introduce its first non-tape-based professional video cameras for the ENG market, using an optical disc system that promises to be one of the linchpins ...
It is the tail end of 2004 and every camera that is in current use records to some sort of tape system. Analogue Betacam is still in widespread use, the Canon XL1 and XM1 are the go-to low budget ...
Sony has used NAB to introduce two - thus far unnamed - optical disk camcorders and their associated studio, compact and mobile decks. With a choice of DV or MPEG coding, the ENG-targeted system ...