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    HVR-1500 Digital HD Videocassette Recorder www .sony .com/HD V ® The monitor image is simulated. SONY52758_HVR1500 3/19/07 12:07 PM Page 1[...]

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    2 Br inging a Ne w Lev el of Functionality and Robustness to HD V Pr oductions – the HVR-1500 HD V Recorder The HVR-1500 is an HD V TM source feeder/ recor der* 1 positioned at the top of the Sony HD V Series . Inheriting the design concept of the market-acclaimed DSR-1500A, the HVR-1500 of fers the same conv enient f eatures that pr ofessional u[...]

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    3 HD V 1080i Specification The HD V 1080i specif ication* 2 f or the HD V format features 1,080 ef fective scanning lines (interlace scanning system) and 1,440 horizontal pixels . It adopts the MPEG-2 compression f ormat (MP@H- 14 f or video), which uses 8-bit digital component recording with a sampling rate of 4:2:0. MPEG-1 A udio Layer II is used[...]

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    4 i.LINK Interface The HVR-1500 is equipped with a 6-pin i.LINK * 7 * 8 interf ace. This allows it to tr ansfer digital video, audio, and command signals (in HD V , DVC AM, and D V f ormat) to a compatible VTR or nonlinear editing system via just a single cable. Analog Interfaces As standard, the HVR-1500 pro vides analog output interf aces f or vi[...]

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    5 Picture Search (in HD V mode) With an editing controller , such as the Sony RM-280 Editing Controller , the HVR-1500 pro vides a conv enient color picture search function f or HDV recordings. * 14 Picture Search Using Menu K eys The HVR-1500 pro vides a picture sear ch function via the menu ke ys on its front panel. By pressing the / B and / A bu[...]

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    6 Rear panel of the HVR-1500 (with the optional HVBK-1505 board) OTHER FEA TURES REAR P ANEL Compact Design (half-rack wide, 3U high) A C Operation (100 to 240V , 50/60 Hz) Low P o w er Consumption (approximate 60 W) VITC (V er tical Inter v al Time Code) (D VC AM f or mat only) V ideo Pr ocessor Control via Men u Closed Caption Function (D VC AM/D[...]

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    7 T ape (HDV) XDCAM Disc XDCAM HD Recording Deck i.LINK Interface i.LINK Interface Dubbing HD-SDI or Nonlinear Editing System HDV/XDCAM HD Pr oduction System HVR-1500 T ape (HDV/DVCAM/DV) Nonlinear Editing System HD/SD Nonlinear Editing System HVR-1500 T ape (HDV) HVR-1500 HDCAM Recorder T ape (HDCAM) HD-SDI HDV/HDCAM Linear Editing System Editing [...]

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    © 2007 Sony Electronics Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. Features and specifications are subject to change without notice. All non-metric weights and measurements are appr oximate. Sony , DVCAM, i.LINK, DigitalMaster , HDCAM, XDCAM are trademarks of Sony . HDV and the HDV logo are tradema[...]