SRW-5500 Sony HD Digital Video Cassette Recorder

HDCAM-SR Studio VTR

The SRW-5500 is a high-end HD studio recorder that employs the HDCAM-SR formats.

* High picture quality using the HDCAM-SR And HDCAM formats

* 1080 recording And playback in HDCAM-SR And HDCAM formats at multiple frame rates: 23.98PsF, 24PsF, 25PsF, 29.97PsF, 50i, 59.94i

* 720P recording And playback (HDCAM-SR only)

* Switchable 4:4:4(*1)/4:2:2 recording

* High-quality MPEG-4 Studio Profile compression (HDCAM-SR)

* High-quality audio recording: 12-channels, 24-bit audio at 48kHz in the HDCAM-SR format(*2)

* Internal format conversion including up- And down-conversion, conversion from 4:4:4 to 4:2:2 And vice versa (*3)

* Playback of Digital Betacam format tapes(*4)

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

* User-friendly controls

* Frame-accurate insert/assemble editing

* High-speed color picture search

* Dynamic Tracking playback

* Digital-Jog Sound

* Dynamic Motion Control (DMC) playback

* Pre-read editing

* Confidence playback

* Selectable 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 capability

* Built-in Tele-File read/write capability

* Metadata HAndling

* Newly designed DT-Head

* New HDCAM-SR tape formula for high realiablity And durability

* Easy maintenance

(*1) Requires the optional HKSR-5003 RGB Processor Board (*) The HDCAM format offers four-channel audio recording (*3) Requires the optional Format Converter Board (*4) To playback Digital Betacam tapes, the optional HKSR-5002 Digital Betacam Processor Board is required.