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SMPTE Journal ( Volume: 107, Issue: 3, March 1998)
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The HDTV Camcorder and the March to Marketplace Reality

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Publisher
SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type
Journal Article
Content Type
Original Research
Abbreviated Title
SMPTE J
Volume
107, No. 3, pp. 164–177
Abstract
A complex 12-year development of high-definition television (HDTV) production standards has vied with consecutive generations of HDTV program origination equipment. While aspiring to the full promise of the ever-evolving standards, equipment designers have grappled with a multiplicity of marketplace realities as separately deifned by the world's broadcasters and program producers. HDTV program origination continues to be frustrated by unrealistic equipment costs and a lack of mobile battery-powered HDTV acquisition systems. The latter is central to the proper exploitation of the significant enhancement to television imagery latent within the technical parameters defined by the latest SMPTE 274M HDTV production standard. This paper describes a bold development thrust that sought to simultaneously lower costs and produce a high-performance, highly compact, HD acquisition system. The technological leap from contemporary HDTV cameras and digital recorders to an all-digital one-piece HD camcorder called for the best in engineering innovation, pragmatic design decisions, and a massive commitment to custom-built VLSI. This paper specifically describes the prototype of the 1920 × 1035 (SMPTE 260M) based camcorder. A modified product based on the later SMPTE 274M standard (1920 × 1080 format) will follow.
Publication Date
1998-03-01
DOI
10.5594/J04486
ISSN
Print: 0036-1682
Link
https://doi.org/10.5594/J04486
Author(s)
Laurence J. ThorpeSony Electronics Inc., San Jose, CA 95134.
bio
Larry Thorpe is a renowned industry expert in the field of video acquisition and is generally considered to be one of the leaders of the HDTV movement. His impressive list of accomplishments includes pioneering HDTV market development in the U.S. and holding ten patents in the broadcast development field. Thorpe was promoted to his current position as vice-president, acquisition systems, business and professional group, Sony Electronics, in 1995. He has business responsibility for all of the broadcast studios and portable cameras (including HDTV) for the Sony BPS Division. Prior to his current position, Thorpe was vice-president, production technology for Sony Advanced Systems. He was responsible for HDTV market development and represented Sony on ATSC technology groups, as well as various SMPTE working groups dealing with high-definition electronic production.
Fumio NagumoSony Electronics Inc., San Jose, CA 95134.
bio
Fumio Nagumo is general manager of Atsugi Broadcast Camera Division, Sony Corp. In the position he has been responsible for the development of Sony's first HDVS CCD camera, the and its successors. Nagumo has also been responsible for the company's SDTV camera family. His developmental responsibilities also include the DSP/CCD camera for the HDW-700 described in this paper. Joining Sony in 1969 after graduating from the Tokyo Institute of Technology with a masters degree in electronics, he was primarily engaged in the research and development of image sensing technologies.
Kazuo IkeSony Electronics Inc., San Jose, CA 95134.
Copyright
© 1998 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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