Recording Formats in DIGITAL

Recording Formats before Video Tape

• Kinescope

[edit] Analog tape formats

• 1" Type B video tape (Bosch)
• 1" Type C videotape (Ampex and Sony)
• 2" Quadruplex videotape (Ampex)
• Ampex
• Betacam
• Betacam SP
• Betamax (Sony)
• Philips videotape recorder EL3400 1" helical scan ca.1963
• S-VHS (JVC)
• U-matic (Sony)
• VCR, VCR-LP, SVR
• VERA (BBC experimental format ca. 1958)
• VHS (JVC)
• VHS-C (JVC)
• Video 2000 (Philips)
• Video8
• Video Hi8

[edit] Digital tape formats

• Betacam IMX (Sony)
• D-VHS (JVC)
• D-Theater
• D1 (Sony)
• D2 (Sony)
• D3
• D5 HD
• Digital Betacam (Sony)
• Digital8 (Sony)
• DV
• HDV
• ProHD (JVC)
• MiniDV
• MicroMV

[edit] Optical disc storage formats

• Blu-Ray Disc (Sony)
• DVD (was Super Density Disc, DVD Forum)
• Enhanced Versatile Disc (EVD, Chinese government-sponsored)
• HD DVD (NEC and Toshiba)
• HD-VMD
• Laserdisc (old, MCA and Philips)
• UMD (Sony)
• CBHD (Chinese government-sponsored)

[edit] Digital encoding formats

• AVS-P2 (Audio Video Coding Standard)
• CCIR 601 (ITU-T)
• H.261 (ITU-T)
• H.263 (ITU-T)
• H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (ITU-T + ISO)
• M-JPEG (ISO)
• MPEG-1 (ISO)
• MPEG-2 (ITU-T + ISO)
• MPEG-4 (ISO)
• Ogg-Theora
• VC-1 (SMPTE)
• See also: Video codec
• See also: List of codecs