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Home › Preservation › Technical glossary › Digital betacam

Digital betacam

Digital VTR recording format. Developed by Sony and marketed by several other manufacturers.

Digital Betacam makes use of mild data compression (around 2:1) to record the CCIR 601 standard video.

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  • digital moving image
  • video

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