Video recorders

Sony covers the range of professional needs with solutions in most major formats. For almost 30 years, Sony has been a leader in VTR technology, quality and reliability.

	Betacam SP For more than 15 years this has been the format of choice by professionals who demand excellence in video acquisition. This robust format offers true component quality, field portability, editing versatility, and studio quality images at affordable prices.
	Betacam SX Sony's new digital format is built for the demands of news gathering and production within the DTV standards. Betacam SX® is an extensive family of cost-efficient products bringing digital advantages of superior picture quality, portability, high speed image transfer, and non-linear editing, all with Betacam SP compatibility.
	DVCAM The DVCAM™ format DSR series of VTRs, Hard Disk Drive recorders and camcorders provide today's most efficient video production capabilities, giving professional video producers and editors the speed, quality and precision they require throughout production, from image acquisition all the way to final post production.
	Digital Betacam The world-wide standard for digital recorders, Digital Betacam® equipment is ideal for applications requiring high quality without compromise. This extensive product line includes editing studio recorders for post production, portable models for production use, and players for viewing or feeding video. Many models feature playback compatibility with Betacam SP material for added versatility.
	Digital Security Recorders Sony’s new line up of Digital Video Recorders can rejuvenate your existing surveillance system with increased flexibility and outstanding reliability. Get all the benefits associated with a digital format (clear, crisp, undistorted images and swift access to images) plus user-free operation (no tape to rewind, change or pry free, and no heads to clean).
	HDCAM With ten years of high definition market leadership, Sony introduces HDCAM™, the new high definition format incorporating our HD Digital Compression technology to achieve superlative picture quality for high-end production.
	J-Series The design concept of the J series Compact Players was for affordable, compact office viewers to be used by producers, journalists and production staff. The result is three models that are ideal for personal, desktop use. At the same time, they have all the features required for viewing, logging and source feeding to servers or nonlinear editing systems. All J series Compact Players can playback Betacam SX™, Betacam SP™ and Betacam™ tapes.
	MPEG IMX. The MPEG IMX VTRs are designed for the demanding, open systems requirements for high quality 4:2:2, 50Mbps, I-frame only editing environments in broadcast and post production as well as for the growing MPEG-2 based infrastructure for contribution, transmission and distribution for DTV.
	Medical Recorders The DKR-700/2 and DPA-300/2 capture and record color and black & white images from a wide variety of analog video sources and store them on a standard 2.5" MD Data Disc. High storage capacity allows for the storage of up to 2,000 images per disc. In addition, Sony Medical Systems offers the industry's widest selection of video tape recorders in nearly every industry standard tape format.
	Optical Decks The Sony PDW line of products offers three types of decks to meet the varying operational needs experienced both in the field and studio. Their functions have been carefully selected to increase production efficiency by exploiting the advantages of optical discs, and they provide familiar VTR-like controls that minimize the learning curve needed to get up to speed.
	S-VHS This format is for the individual that needs to go the next step beyond VHS. A wide variety of applications from the wedding videographer to the medical world need the quality this format produces
	Security Sony offers a wide variety of tape formats for time lapse recorders, including S-VHS, "Real Action" and standard VHS, 8mm, Hi8™, and Digital Video, providing high resolution and a flexible range of recording and playback modes. Utilizing a new hybrid combination of DV tape and Hard Disk Drive to record and archive digital video, Sony offers the ultimate in high performance, high reliability, low maintenance digital surveillance recording.
	VTR Accessories & Support Packages Sony offers a variety of output boards, service package options and other accessories to operate with its full line of videotape recorders