D6 HDTV VTR

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D6 VTR Tape Deck
Broadcast TV and post-production
Released2000

D6 HDTV VTR is

giga bit
recorder to record and playback raw data. Toshiba made the video tape for the VTR. The high price of the video tape limited the use of the VTR.

Specs

  • Tape format D-6 19 mm tape cassette housing, SMPTE 277/278M
  • Also marketed under the name "Digital Voodoo"
  • The tape cassette housing looks like a 19mm
    D2
    cassette, but inserting these older standard definition tape cassettes would be rejected by the VTR.
  • metal particle tape
  • Scanner diameter 96 mm, a helical scan
  • Track pitch: 22 um
  • D6 tape thickness 11 um
  • Head to tape speed ~46 m/s
  • Tape speed ~497 mm/s
  • Records and playback of 1 Gbit/s uncompressed data—the only real-time uncompressed HD videotape format marketed (the more ubiquitous Sony HDCAM, Panasonic D5-HD and Sony XDCAM HD/422 all used compression)
  • Uses cassette sizes L – M – S
  • Recording time:
    • Small type 8 minutes
    • Med. type 28 minutes
    • Large type 64 minutes
  • Helical scan Record heads 2 clusters of 8 (0/180) total of 16
  • Play heads 2 clusters of 8 (0/180) Total of 16
  • Erase heads 2 (0/180)
    • Yes, that is a total of 34 heads on the scanner.
  • Video error correction
    Reed Solomon
    code, 2D
  • Longitudinal tracks three: Control track, Timecode and, Audio cue
  • Playback Slow motion +/- ¼ and with a video visible search mode
  • HDTV Video Signal Formats (SMPTE 274M)
    • 1920 x 1080 @ 24p
    • 1920 x 1080 @ 23.976p
    • 1920 x 1080 @ 25p
  • Progressive modes DTV
    • 1920 x 1080 @ 24sF
    • 1920 x 1080 @ 23.976sF
    • 1920 x 1080 @ 25sF ”segmented frame” modes
    • 1920 x 1080 @ 60i
    • 1920 x 1080 @ 59.94i
    • 1920 x 1080 @ 50i 2:1 interlace modes
  • The unit can cross play some formats
  • 4:2:2
    :
    • Luminance Y 74.25 MHz and 74.25/1.001 = 74.1758 MHz
    • Chrominance 37.125 MHz and 37.125/1.001 = 37.0879 MHz
  • Quantization:
    • Y-Luminance = 10 Bits 24/25 fr/sec modes and 8 Bits 30 fr/sec modes
    • Chroma = 8 Bits
  • AUDIO:
    • 30 Frames System: 10 channel, 5 stereo pairs
    • 24/25 Frames System: 12 channels, 6 stereo pairs
    • Audio standard
      AES/EBU
    • Sampling frequency 48 kHz
    • Quantization, digital I/O 20 or 24 bit

Worldwide past users list

Europe:

  • Artisan video, Netherlands
  • Augustus, Italy
  • Cinefekt
  • Digital Film Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark[1]
  • Digital Images, Halle, Germany
  • Digital Film Finland, Helsinki, Finland[2]
  • DMV Research, UK
  • Eclair Épinay, France
  • Frame Image, Helsinki, Finland
  • Frithiof Telecine, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Generator Post, Finland
  • Geyer Video, Berlin, Germany
  • Interactive Group, Milan, Italy
  • LTC Scanlab, France
  • Listo, Vienna, Austria
  • Mars Motel, Sweden
  • Molinare, Spain
  • Philips Research, Netherlands
  • Rudas, Germany
  • Sertek, Turkey
  • Short Cut, Denmark [3]
  • Epoka Ltd, Poland [4]
  • EBH Polska, Warsaw, Poland
  • Taurus Media Technik, Munich, Germany
  • VCC, Hamburg, Germany
  • VDM Courbevoie, France [5]
  • Video Copy Company – VCC, Berlin, Germany [6]
  • VTR, London
  • Warehouse, Denmark

Americas

  • Casablanca Finish Ltda, São Paulo, Brazil
  • Command Post, Toronto, Canada [7]
  • Complete Post, Hollywood, CA [8]
  • Discreet, Montreal, Canada
  • Digital Images, Los Angeles, CA
  • Galicia Ramirez y Asoc. Mex., Mexico
  • The Ed Guzman HDTV Museum, Burbank, CA
  • Industrial Light and Magic
    , San Francisco, CA
  • IVC, International Video Conversions, Burbank, CA [9]
  • Laser Pacific, Hollywood, CA [10]
  • Library of Congress, Washington, DC
  • Mega, Brazil
  • TV Globo, Brazil
  • Rhinoceros Editorial & Post, New York, NY
  • SMA Video, New York, NY [11]
  • Technique, Burbank, CA [12]
  • Vid-Film (now Technicolor Creative Services), Glendale, CA

Asia/Pacific

  • Noriko Post, Osaka, Japan

Photo gallery

  • D6 VTR scanner, removed
    D6 VTR scanner, removed
  • Inside a D6 VTR tape deck
    Inside a D6 VTR tape deck
  • D6 VTR full unit
    D6 VTR full unit
  • D6 HDTV tape
    D6 HDTV tape

See also

External links

References

  1. ^ "Home". digitalfilmlab.com.
  2. ^ "Web2.sgic.fi". Archived from the original on 2003-03-20. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  3. ^ "www.filmteknikk.no is parked". www.filmteknikk.no.
  4. ^ "EPOKA TV". www.epoka.tv.
  5. ^ "Accueil".
  6. ^ "Domain im Kundenauftrag registriert". www.vcc.de.
  7. ^ "compt.com,Command Post". www.compt.com.
  8. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2022-03-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ^ "双彩网-welcome登录". www.ivchd.com.
  10. ^ "Home". laserpacific.com.
  11. ^ "SMA Video". SMAVID.
  12. ^ "Technicolor Home Page". www.technicolor.com.