Reely Interesting | Jazz On ED Beta (1990's Live Jazz Concert Footage From Sony EDC-55 Betamax Camera) @ReelyInteresting | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
This is footage from a live Jazz event as recorded on a Sony EDC-55 ED Beta camcorder from approximately the 1990's.
The content of this tape is of unknown origin and taken at an unknown location, featuring unknown bands. Starting out with a Jazz quartet recorded in stereo and ending with a Dixieland band in mono, this recording taken with the legendary EDC-55 may not be the clearest or highest quality example of the EDC-55, but it is an enjoyable & intimate collection of Jazz tunes which still shows the excellent audio & video quality of penultimate consumer Betamax evolution.
ED Beta was the final evolution of Sony's Betamax consumer video tape system. ED Beta could produce 500 or more lines of horizontal B&W (luma) resolution besting standard Betamax and VHS's 250 lines and especially JVC Victor's 400-line S-VHS system. Unfortunately, ED Beta was a very expensive system and required special metal tapes that were incompatible with existing Betamax set-ups. There was also plenty of consumer confusion between the many different sometimes-incompatible Betamax formats (BI, BII, BIII, Super Beta, Hi-Band Beta, & ED Beta). Finally, ED Beta did not increase Betamax's limited color (chroma) resolution of just 30 or so horizontal lines which kept the format from being a true improvement. As a result, just like S-VHS, ED Beta never gained significant market share.
The EDC-55 was the sole camcorder produced for the ED Beta format. Designed for the prosumer market, the unusual camera featured an unusual 2 CCD sensor which produced separated full resolution luma (B&W) and half resolution chroma (color) output into a removable (dockable) ED Beta back. As a result, the 2 CCD sensor could be connected to other VTRs while the ED Beta back could be connected to different sensor. This is in addition to other features only found on professional ENG cameras such as XLR microphone support, swappable/upgradable NP-1 battery support, B4 mount lens support, and much more. All this came at a price though, costing around $8,000 USD for a complete kit in 1987. This tape was found inside a unit with destroyed boards from leaking capacitors and a damaged sensor prism from mold. This tape is all that remains.
Please enjoy the interesting footage from this concert on an unusual format!
If you have any information on this recording, please let me know!
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This was played back using a mechanically and electrically restored Sony EDV-9000 ED Beta player.
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If you want to follow me for updates or want to help me afford straw hats for my Dixieland band (which only plays Swanee River on repeated ad infinitum), please click the link below:
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This is footage from a live Jazz event as recorded on a Sony EDC-55 ED Beta camcorder from approximately the 1990's.
The content of this tape is of unknown origin and taken at an unknown location, featuring unknown bands. Starting out with a Jazz quartet recorded in stereo and ending with a Dixieland band in mono, this recording taken with the legendary EDC-55 may not be the clearest or highest quality example of the EDC-55, but it is an enjoyable & intimate collection of Jazz tunes which still shows the excellent audio & video quality of penultimate consumer Betamax evolution.
ED Beta was the final evolution of Sony's Betamax consumer video tape system. ED Beta could produce 500 or more lines of horizontal B&W (luma) resolution besting standard Betamax and VHS's 250 lines and especially JVC Victor's 400-line S-VHS system. Unfortunately, ED Beta was a very expensive system and required special metal tapes that were incompatible with existing Betamax set-ups. There was also plenty of consumer confusion between the many different sometimes-incompatible Betamax formats (BI, BII, BIII, Super Beta, Hi-Band Beta, & ED Beta). Finally, ED Beta did not increase Betamax's limited color (chroma) resolution of just 30 or so horizontal lines which kept the format from being a true improvement. As a result, just like S-VHS, ED Beta never gained significant market share.
The EDC-55 was the sole camcorder produced for the ED Beta format. Designed for the prosumer market, the unusual camera featured an unusual 2 CCD sensor which produced separated full resolution luma (B&W) and half resolution chroma (color) output into a removable (dockable) ED Beta back. As a result, the 2 CCD sensor could be connected to other VTRs while the ED Beta back could be connected to different sensor. This is in addition to other features only found on professional ENG cameras such as XLR microphone support, swappable/upgradable NP-1 battery support, B4 mount lens support, and much more. All this came at a price though, costing around $8,000 USD for a complete kit in 1987. This tape was found inside a unit with destroyed boards from leaking capacitors and a damaged sensor prism from mold. This tape is all that remains.
Please enjoy the interesting footage from this concert on an unusual format!
If you have any information on this recording, please let me know!
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This was played back using a mechanically and electrically restored Sony EDV-9000 ED Beta player.
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If you want to follow me for updates or want to help me afford straw hats for my Dixieland band (which only plays Swanee River on repeated ad infinitum), please click the link below:
https://linktr.ee/OpWorkshop
![1998 Suburban Chicago Commercials [Ricoh, Carpet One, Ingrassia, B. Sanfield] (JVC D-9 Master Tape)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zWF7S5uyJow/hqdefault.jpg "1998 Suburban Chicago Commercials [Ricoh, Carpet One, Ingrassia, B. Sanfield] (JVC D-9 Master Tape)
This is a collection of commercials for Ricoh, Carpet One, Ingrassia, & B. Sanfield intended for broadcast in the Rockford, Illinois, USA market. This footage comes from the original digital master tapes.
Not too much is known about the commercials and if any were aired. These were recorded between 1998 & 1999 for the aforementioned stores, some of which were chain retailers. As a result, a lot of the commercials appear to have used generic (analog-sourced) commercial footage (such as a segment with B.B. King) with regional information overlaid on top. Since analog broadcasting was quite low-resolution and noisy, it is almost assured that a consumer wouldnt notice the, perhaps, stark contrast between the digital & analog-sourced footage. Can you tell the difference?
In addition, some of these segments appear to simply be video-less radio bumpers.
D-9, also known as Digital-S, was JVC Victors attempt to create a competing, comparable format to Sonys Digital Betacam. The tape format uses DV compression (like the common miniDV tape), but at twice the bitrate (50 Mbps) for extremely high fidelity picture reproduction and very low generational losses. Just like how Sony used Betamax-sized tape for Digital Betacam, this tape format used tapes extremely similar to VHS in size and shape, hence the Digital-S (like S-VHS) name! In fact, the tapes are identical to and interchangeable with the rare W-VHS analog HD tape format (but the recording formats are obviously quite different)!
Enjoy these rare commercials in unusually high quality from an era gone by!
Sad fact: This tape is cursed! While other branches may exist for the major retailers, not a single Rockford, IL branch or business mentioned in these recordings exists today. That even includes the production house!
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This D-9 recording was played back using a JVC BR-D85U D-9 deck.
This is a REELY EXCLUSIVE upload! This footage is from the only known master recording.
Note: The video was edited to eliminate unnecessary color bars, countdowns, and long-spaces between segments. This recording would have otherwise been 60 minutes long!
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