
Table 35.3 Digital
videotape formats for HDTV
The D-6 format is "uncompressed" (although
subject to chroma subsampling); all of the other formats (below the line) use compression. The
shaded row describes a consumer format that is standardized but unlikely to be deployed.
D-6
D-5 H D (H D-D5)
D-11 (H DCAAA)
H DTV videotape formats
Table 35.3 summarizes H DTV digital videotape formats.
SMPTE D-6 defines a videotape format that records
uncompressecl, 8-bit, 4:2:2 HDTV, at a bit rate of
1.188
Gb/s.
This equipment has superb performance,
and is very expensive.
The SMPTE D-5 standard, mentioned earlier, records
uncompressecI ...