D6 HDTV VTR is SMPTE videocassette standard. A D6 VTR can record and playback HDTV video uncompressed. The only D6 VTR product is the Philips, now Thomson's Grass Valley's Media Recorder, model DCR 6024, also called the D6 Voodoo VTR. The VTR was a joint project between Philips Digital Video Systems of Germany and Toshiba in Japan. The tape deck module was designed and made by Philips in Weiterstadt, Germany (formerly Bosch Fernseh), and the digital processor module designed and made by Toshiba. Since there is no data compression, after 20 tape copies of multi generations there is no noticeable loss of quality. As a very high-end, costly system about 70 were sold to high-end post houses from about 2000 to 2005. The VTR had a data record option. The data module could record and play back 2k DPX files at 6 frames per second over a HIPPI connection. The VTR came in a data only model, or with a switch module, so the record deck could be used for both video and data recording. The tape deck was also sold stand alone as a giga bit recorder to record and playback raw data. Toshiba made the video tape for the VTR. The high price of the video tape limited the use of the VTR.
Specs
Tape format D-6 19 mm tape cassette housing, SMPTE 277/278M Also marketed under the name "Digital Voodoo" The tape cassette housing looks like a 19 mm D1 or D2 cassette, but inserting these older standard definition tape cassettes would be rejected by the VTR. Magnetic tape is a metal particle tape Scanner diameter 96 mm, a helical scan Track pitch: 22 um D6 tape thickness 11 um Head to tape speed ~46 m/s Tape speed ~497 mm/s Records and playback of 1 Gbit/s uncompressed data—the only real-time uncompressed HD videotape format marketed (the more ubiquitous Sony HDCAM, Panasonic D5-HD and Sony XDCAM HD/422 all used compression) Uses cassette sizes L – M – S Recording time: Small type 8 minutes Med. type 28 minutes Large type 64 minutes Helical scan Record heads 2 clusters of 8 (0/180) total of 16 Play heads 2 clusters of 8 (0/180) Total of 16 Erase heads 2 (0/180) Yes, that is a total of 34 heads on the scanner. Video error correction Reed Solomon code, 2D Longitudinal tracks three: Control track, Timecode and, Audio cue Playback Slow motion ± ¼ and with a video visible search mode HDTV Video Signal Formats (SMPTE 274M) 1920 × 1080 @ 24p 1920 × 1080 @ 23.976p 1920 × 1080 @ 25p Progressive modes DTV 1920 × 1080 @ 24sF 1920 × 1080 @ 23.976sF 1920 × 1080 @ 25sF ”segmented frame” modes 1920 × 1080 @ 60i 1920 × 1080 @ 59.94i 1920 × 1080 @ 50i 2:1 interlace modes The unit can cross play some formats Sampling Frequency 4:2:2: Luminance Y 74.25 MHz and 74.25/1.001 = 74.1758 MHz Chrominance 37.125 MHz and 37.125/1.001 = 37.0879 MHz Quantization: Y-Luminance = 10 Bits 24/25 fr/sec modes and 8 Bits 30 fr/sec modes Chroma = 8 Bits AUDIO: 30 Frames System: 10 channel, 5 stereo pairs 24/25 Frames System: 12 channels, 6 stereo pairs Audio standard AES/EBU Sampling frequency 48 kHz Quantization, digital I/O 20 or 24 bit
Worldwide past users list
Europe:
Artisan video, Netherlands Augustus, Italy Cinefekt Digital Film Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark Digital Images, Halle, Germany Digital Film Finland, Helsinki, Finland DMV Research, UK Eclair Épinay, France Frame Image, Helsinki, Finland Frithiof Telecine, Stockholm, Sweden Generator Post, Finland Geyer Video, Berlin, Germany Interactive Group, Milan, Italy LTC Scanlab, France Listo, Vienna, Austria Mars Motel, Sweden Molinare, Spain Philips Research, Netherlands Rudas, Germany Sertek, Turkey Short Cut, Denmark Epoka Ltd, Poland EBH Polska, Warsaw, Poland Taurus Media Technik, Munich, Germany VCC, Hamburg, Germany VDM Courbevoie, France Video Copy Company – VCC, Berlin, Germany VTR, London Warehouse, Denmark Americas:
Casablanca Finish Ltda, São Paulo, Brazil Command Post, Toronto, Canada Complete Post, Hollywood, CA Discreet, Montreal, Canada Digital Images, Los Angeles, CA Galicia Ramirez y Asoc. Mex., Mexico The Ed Guzman HDTV Museum, Burbank, CA Industrial Light and Magic, San Francisco, CA IVC, International Video Conversions, Burbank, CA Laser Pacific, Hollywood, CA Library of Congress, Washington, DC Mega, Brazil TV Globo, Brazil Rhinoceros Editorial & Post, New York, NY SMA Video, New York, NY Technique, Burbank, CA Vid-Film (now Technicolor Creative Services), Glendale, CA Asia/Pacific
Noriko Post, Osaka, Japan
Photo gallery
See also Spirit DataCine D5 HD HDCAM (D-11) DVCPRO HD (D-12)
External links Manual for a D6 VooDoo (PDF) cilect.org on Digital Film Melbourne digitalcontentproducer.com - video NAB choose weapons cinematography.net D6 test pmotions.com, PDF file, D6 on page 50 Digital Fact Book 2008
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