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From: bruce@balilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Video Recorders with single frame step/record
Keywords: video recorders
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.222502.3231@blilly.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 90 22:25:02 GMT
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In article <1990Nov16.211405.12123@alias.uucp> tom@alias.UUCP (Tom Burns) writes:
>In article <3361@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> mark@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Mark Goodwin) writes:
>>
>>Anyone know anything about video recorders which can record single frames?
>> [...]
>>Ideally, we want a recorder which accepts RGB and can be stepped
>>under software control.
>
>Except for the old IVC-9000, long obsolete, no tape recorder will
>accept direct RGB analog component signals. 

Wrong! The Sony DVR/DVPC-1000 is a *digital* component recorder which
will accept serial or parallel digital component video (per CCIR 601),
analog RGB or Y/R-Y/B-Y signals, and has a set of Betacam(tm)-style
multi-pin connectors for I/O. In addition to the digital video, 4 channels
of independently-editable digital audio (16-20 bits/sample, 48 kHz
sampling rate) are recorded on tape (D-1 format).

Oh yes, by the way, the DVR/DVPC-1000 can record a single frame. In fact
any duration from 2 fields (one frame) to 94 minutes, in on field
increments, can be recorded.  The machine has a feature which permits
assembling an animation sequence by entering the inital frame's time code,
and a duration; every time an edit command is given, an additonal bit of
audio and/or video is tacked on to the end of the previosly recorded
sequence.  The edit command can be givem manually, via a contact closure,
via RS-232-C, or via RS-422.

The DVR/DVPC-1000 was shown in Sony's booth at SIGGRAPH.
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	Bruce Lilly		blilly!balilly!bruce@sonyd1.Broadcast.Sony.COM