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DigiBeta was and still is a very good format for artistic creation and that video proves this. ... That Panasonic conceptual workstation would have been a welcome addition over what I was working with at the time
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DV, with its lower bitrate and built-in Firewire that did not require re-encoding, pushed videomaking from fussing with tape machines to pressing buttons on a computer keyboard. By the end of the 1990s it finally became possible to ingest a complete 1-hour DV tape and store it on an HDD without recompressing.
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At first glance both the Sony and Panasonic DV formats look exactly the same because in reality they are, Sony uses a wider track and faster tape speed but the digital formats share the same roots.
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Baseline DV has 10 μm pitch, DVCAM has 15 μm pitch, DVCPRO has 18 μm pitch.
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On the Plasma they look sharp but somewhat fake with the dithering caused by the 8-bit grayscale
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Depends on the display as well, how well it converts those 8-bit values into 10, 12 or 14 bits. So many tricks were employed to make 8-bit video look better, custom gamma curves, HDR processing, etc.
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The technology was already there and proven in the case of the Data-8 used by Exabyte and 4MM DDS, these did evolve and expand in capacity over the years with the various compression algorithms. In reality it's so hard to speculate but it sure is fun.
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Yeah, I was wondering whether Sony pressed Panasonic not to turn these internal transports into a data streamer. I guess we'll never know.