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Same exact mechanism in my PVV3 docking betacam and it gets regular use even in the modern 16:9 day. I dock it with my DXC-D55 which does both 4:3 & 16:9 and while it's not hi-def deinterlaced and corrected is not bad either. Going raw never digital to my old Magnavox it looks far-far-far away better than anything digital and feeding my 54" Samsung plasma using component it still looks more natural than DV.
There was a time when Sony had this 3/4 head wrap in the consumer betamovie camcorder package and while I could be wrong I think it was also an M-wrap, they did this later with the 4MM DAT format in the mobile/portable devices like the in-dash DTX-10 and TCD-7 portable. Not the most reliable or robust but it did squeeze things down. I had the DTX-10 for over a decade in my service truck and it was the internal power supply that killed it.
Last edited by ARC Tech-109; 10-02-2024 at 03:56 PM.
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