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From: harlock@raindrop.com (Mike Harlock)
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Subject: Digital Video....
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> With all this talk of video equipment, I thought this might be a good
> time to ask if anyone knows what is happening with the rumored Digital
> Video Tape format?
>
> This is the video equivalent to DAT but the last I heard, Sony had the
> equipment perfected and on the market overseas, but American release was
> being held because Hollywood is scared shitless that a lossless video
> tape format would make piracy much more prominent and they wanted Sony to
> develop some sort of built-in protection that would prevent duplication
> of any commercial video.
Well, they've had demo models of the DCR-VX1000 (Sony's DVC camcorder) and
a competitor at local stores for quite some time. Latest talk suggests
they will actually be for sale en masse in January. I don't know anything
about the hollywood rumors. I think they had the same worry about laserdiscs.
On the consumer end, the 1000 is by far the best. If you've used or owned
a Sonly TR-101 or 600 or 700, it's similar to that. Their award winning
mechanical stabilizer is better than ever in this device, and it's the
smallest of the DVC's. (I'm a happy TR-101 owner)
The 1000 is $4000 retail, and the 700, the 1-chip version, is around $2500.
Panicsonic's model, on the other hand, resembles a giant gatlin gun compared
to Sony's...it's a bunch of tubes fused together, really bulky, really
obnoxious, and the stabilizer just plain stinks.
Ooon the industrial end, I gleaned a little more info from rec.video.prodcution