alt Hacker NewsSony was selling new HDCAM VTRs as recently as 10 years ago. I am sure pros are using HDCAM right now. But it doesn't really answer the question: how were films moved to video formats?
Sony was selling new HDCAM VTRs as recently as 10 years ago. I am sure pros are using HDCAM right now. But it doesn't really answer the question: how were films moved to video formats?
There are plenty of countries that are still using tapes. Hell, there's plenty of small market broadcast stations in the US that are only SD and only uprez to HD just before hitting the transmitter.
> how were films moved to video formats?
Films were transferred to video tapes with a telecine[0]. It was tape agnostic as it just created the video signal. Eventually, the telecine signal was captured directly to digital files bypassing tape altogether.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine