Professional DV

The new BR-DV6000

The Format

Professional DV is a tape format which is the professionalised form of the universal DV format. It produces a high resolution 580 TV line images. The DV format is an 8-bit, 13.5 MHz bandwidth, component digital 4:2:0 (PAL), 4:1:1 (NTSC) system.

The main distinguishing features of Professional DV, as opposed to plain DV, are "locked audio" and EBU time code, which allows it to be integrated perfectly into broadcast and other professional environments.

Wide Choice of Recording Media

With the latest range of JVC Professional DV camcorders there is a choice of tape or hard disk or both, in parallel or in series.

There are two sizes of Professional DV cassette, Standard DV and MiniDV. Standard DV cassettes are available in sizes up to 276 minutes, which is over 4 ½ hours. MiniDV cassettes have a maximum of 63 minutes. Both Standard DV and MiniDV cassettes fit equally into the latest JVC camcorders, without any adaptor necessary.

The Professional DV Hard Disk Drives are of the removeable type and can be interchanged at will in the JVC Hard Disk Recorder, DR-DV5000 which is a docking device for JVC's latest Professional DV camcorders.

There are currently two capacities of Hard Disk available, 40 GB and 80 GB, the latter provides 6.5 hours of continuous recording.

Linked by series recording mode, the 276 min. Standard DV cassette and the 80 GB HDD provide 11 hours of continuous, unattended recording.

Professional DV, the growing format, the flexible format.

Read more about Professional DV

	DV Compression:-John Watkinson explains the compression system used in digital VCRs
	EBU Report:-Final Report of the EBU / SMPTE Task Force for Harmonized Standards for the Exchange of Television Programme Material as Bitstreams
	Why DV?:-PowerPoint presentation explains the case for DV