Sony Broadcast SRW-5500

The SRW-5000 is a high-end HD digital videocassette recorder that employs the HDCAM-SR format. Applications range from HDTV to digital cinematography. Key features include high quality 1080i, 1080P or 720P recording and playback, a wide array of internal format conversions, including 4:4:4 to 4:2:2 legacy playback of HDCAM and Digital BETACAM tape formats.

• 1080 recording and playback at multiple frame rates: 23.98PsF, 24PsF, 25PsF, 29.97PsF, 50i, 59.94i

• 720P/59.94/50 recording and playback

• Switchable 4:4:4/4:2:2 recording (option)

• New HDCAM-SR tape format

• High quality MPEG-4 Studio Profile compression

• 12 channels of 24-bit audio at 48kHz

• Internal format conversion (option)

• Legacy playback (Digital Betacam option)

• Long recording time on a single cassette of up to 155 minutes at 1080/24P

• User friendly controls

• Frame accurate insert/assemble editing

• High speed colour picture search

• Dynamic Tracking playback

• Digital Jog Sound

• Dynamic Motion Control (DMC) playback

• Pre-read editing

• Confidence playback

• Selectable downconverter picture modes including squeeze, letter box and edge crop

• Audio output channel routing, can route audio to any HD-SDI or SDI output

• Dual-sync operation

• Off-speed playback capabiity

• Built-in Tele-file read/write capability

• Metadata handling

• Newly designed DT-Head

• New tape formula

•Easy maintenance