Sony Unveils Optical Disc Production System
April 09, 2003
Las Vegas, NV - Sony Electronics' professional optical disc system made its debut at NAB, and additional information about the product line-up is available.
Products will be available in the fall, the manufacturer has announced.
The PDW-510 DVCAM camcorder and the PDW-530 MPEG IMX/DVCAM optical disc camcorder incorporate 2/3-inch Power HAD image sensors and 12-bit analog-to-digital converters. Features include loop/interval recording on a built-in cache memory, Ethernet or wireless LAN interfaces through optional PC-card adaptors and a 2.5-inch (viewable area, measured diagonally) LCD monitor for playback, marking good shots and re-sequencing clips.
The two camcorders both have up to 30 times output capabilities of low-resolution, frame-accurate proxy audio and video. The PDW-510 DVCAM model and the PDW-530 MPEG IMX/DVCAM model will be offered for suggested list prices of $19,900 and $34,000, respectively.
The optical disc system will offers 24-frame shooting capabilities with an optional card that can be inserted into either camcorder.
The battery- or AC-powered PDW-V1 optical disc mobile player is a mobile deck that plays back DVCAM and MPEG IMX recordings for display on a built-in LCD or external standard monitor. The deck has a single optical head with a data transfer rate of up to 72Mbps, supporting up to 30 times faster-than-real-time transfer of low-resolution proxy video over i.LINK and Ethernet interfaces, in addition to MXF file transfers over a 100-BaseT network connection.
The PDW-V1 mobile deck will have a suggested list price of $7,000.
The PDW-1500 optical disc compact deck is an NLE companion deck, a half-rack feeding/recording machine for non-linear editing (NLE). The dual optical head design has a data transfer rate of up to 144Mbps and supports up to five times faster-than-real-time transfer of full-resolution DVCAM audio and video and up to 50 times real-time transfer of low-resolution proxy audio and video via its i.LINK or Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The PDW-1500 compact deck will have a suggested list price of approximately $15,000.
The PDW-3000 optical disc studio deck is a standard editing deck that offers both DVCAM and MPEG IMX recording and playback, and provides a full complement of analog A/V, digital A/V and IT interfaces, including the i.LINK interface and Gigabit Ethernet port. The dual optical head design has a data transfer rate of up to 144Mbps and supports up to five times faster-than-real-time transfer of full-resolution DVCAM audio and video and up to 50 times real-time transfer of low-resolution proxy audio and video.
The studio deck will be available for a suggested list price of approximately $26,000.
The blue-laser optical disc system carries far greater information than conventional red lasers allowing a significant increase in data density. This yields a storage capacity of 23.3GB per disc - a five-fold increase over DVD's 4.7GB. Data transfer rates are as high as 144Mbps with the compact deck and the studio deck.
The rewritable five-inch media is encased in a protective cartridge, making the recording surface resistant to dust, shocks and scratches in the rigors of field use.
A single disc holds 90 minutes of DVCAM video material or 45 minutes of MPEG IMX material recorded at 50 Mbps, 60 minutes at 40 Mbps, and 75 minutes at 30 Mbps. A street price of less than $30 per disc is anticipated at introduction.
For more information, visit
www.sony.com
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