Film Best Posts: New York in 1993 in HD - DTheater DVHS Demo Tape

  1. Ricky
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    Apr 29, 2016


    In 2002 D-Theater launched in the US - the dealers needed a demo tape of HD footage. JVC reused some HD video that had been shot as a demo for the Japanese HD market back in 1993.
    This footage would have most likely been originally used for a HiVision MUSE Laserdisc demo.

    You can tell the year is 1993 by the adverts in Times Square - the Radio 501 CD that's advertised on a billboard came out in 1993 and Paper Moon is playing at the Marquis Theater.

    For those wondering what HD video camera tech existed in 1993 - there are a few options, but it's likely that this footage was shot with a HDVS camera - perhaps a Sony SONY HDC-500 attached to a HDV-10 portable recorder which recorded on UniHi 3/4" tape.

    Beautiful :mjcry:
     
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