D-1
AKA
4:2:2 Component Digital
Era
1986–1990s
Analog/digital
digital
Format
Tape
Developed by
Sony
(Max) Capacity
94 minutes
Size
36.5 × 20.3 × 3.2 cm
Fun facts
- This format was the first major professional digital video tape recording system
- This format used component video (where video signals move through 3 separate cables), as opposed to the more common composite video (where the video signals are sent as one signal)
- This was the format of choice for animation studios
- This was the first format to store encoded YCbCr 4:2:2, a standard that still influences uncompressed video storage
