Long Recording Time on a Single Cassette
A full-length feature movie can be recorded on a single tape cassette. The HDW-F500 supports both small and large tape cassettes. Small cassettes, as recorded by the Sony HDCAM camcorder – the HDW-F900 – and large cassettes ideal for production, post production and distribution. The actual running time is dependent upon the frame rate. Typically, at 24 progressive frames per second, a small cassette will record 50 minutes and a large cassette 155 minutes.

Digital Audio and Ancillary-Data Recording
The HDCAM format records four channels (two AES/EBU stereo pairs) of non-compressed digital audio (20 bit at 48 kHz). The HDW-F500 is able to record non-audio data streams within the audio recording area by packaging the data within an AES/EBU wrapper. Furthermore, the footprint of the HDCAM also has the packet data area alternatively, so that you can select this ancillary-data to be recorded onto this packet data area or the audio data space via menu control system of the VTR.

High reliability is mandatory
The HDW-F500 bears a striking resemblance to the legendary Digital BetacamTM studio VTRs. This resemblance is more than skin deep. The tape transport design is derived from Digital Betacam thereby guaranteeing high reliability and familiar maintenance procedures.

Dolby®-E
The Dolby-E system for digital surround sound production is gaining popularity and the HDW-F500 can record the Dolby-E bit stream onto one of its AES/EBU stereo pairs. In total two Dolby-E bit streams can be recorded. The HDW-F500 can advance replay the Dolby-E bit streams during playback in order to compensate for the delay of the Dolby-E encoding / decoding process.

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