Reely Interesting | Koichi Inakoshi, Shigeaki Saegusa - Paris Part 1 (1989 Analog HDTV 1080i Sony HDVS Video Music BGV) @ReelyInteresting | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
This is part 1 of "Paris" (00QW-9004) from a Sony-made high-definition 12" HDVS videodisc. The HDVS disc format was designed to be a highly portable 12" laserdisc-derived media format for Sony's "High-Definition Video System" or "Hi-Vision" back in the early 1990's! Back then, high definition was a little different from how it is now. It was analog (not digital) & close to but slightly different in resolution to the 1080i picture we receive over the air today as it was technically 1125i/1035i. Before the earliest high-definition media was available to the public (via satellite, MUSE Laserdisc, & W-VHS tapes), Sony and other companies began shooting footage, doing research, and, showing public displays of high-definition television. There were three main ways of storing HDTV (or HDVS) at that time: Reel-to-reel tape (HDV-1000), cartridge tape (HDV-10 "UniHi"), & 12" Laserdisc-style discs (HDL-5800 / HDL-2000). This footage came from one of the Laserdisc-style discs.
These HDVS discs could only hold a maximum of 15 minutes of video (on CLV discs, even less on CAV discs)...but it held uncompressed, raw high-definition component video! Take that, Blu-Ray!
"Koichi Inakoshi - Paris" is an early analog high-definition recording which combines Koichi Inakoshi's high-definition imagery of Paris, France with the eclectic soundtrack of Shigeaki Saegusa. Koichi Inakoshi is a Japanese photographer and videographer who is known for his rather avant-garde photography of landscapes along with celebrity photography. He also did a decent amount of work for Sony, producing other concept BGV discs such as "Koichi Inakoshi - Tokyo" (which I previously uploaded). Shigeaki Saegusa is a Japanese composer who is known for his adventurous/experimental jazz-fusion tracks and his contributions to animes such as Mobile Suit Z/ZZ Gundam and Heart Cocktail. All songs in "Paris" are from his 1988 album "眼" (Pronounced "meh", meaning "eye/vision"). "Paris" was also a popular advertising tool by Sony for the HDVS system and many advertisements and promotions featured screen shots or segments from this recording.
Enjoy this very special video that was never available to the public in the original HD presentation until now!
Fun fact: Look at the sides of the image. Do you see that they don't fill your TV/monitor? Since this was recorded on the original 1984 pure-analog HDVS system, it also was recorded in the original, more-square 5:3 aspect ratio that NHK & Sony chose for the original HDTV system. By 1988, the HDTV standard was standardized to the 16:9 aspect ratio that began to be used on all HDTV systems forward and that we continue to use to this day; however, the hardware took a couple more years to be updated to 16:9. Surprisingly, YouTube supports videos uploaded in 5:3 aspect ratio so dust off & plug in your favorite 16:10 monitor to see less black bars than on a 16:9 monitor!
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Chapters (by song):
00:20 - CRYPTOGAM (隠花植物)
04:04 - ORCUS (死神)
08:13 - AMANDA (アマンダ)
10:47 - DROWNING (溺死)
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This was recorded off on a Sony HDL-2000 Videodisc player which outputs true analog component (1035i) video. Uploaded in upscaled 4K ProRes for extra clarity!
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Be sure to to check out part 2 here: youtube.com/watch?v=GjuDTrEOPdU
More of my vintage HDTV uploads can be found in this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3eMpGbSBzjiF1cdU2MkFBAc34D6HONoC
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This is part 1 of "Paris" (00QW-9004) from a Sony-made high-definition 12" HDVS videodisc. The HDVS disc format was designed to be a highly portable 12" laserdisc-derived media format for Sony's "High-Definition Video System" or "Hi-Vision" back in the early 1990's! Back then, high definition was a little different from how it is now. It was analog (not digital) & close to but slightly different in resolution to the 1080i picture we receive over the air today as it was technically 1125i/1035i. Before the earliest high-definition media was available to the public (via satellite, MUSE Laserdisc, & W-VHS tapes), Sony and other companies began shooting footage, doing research, and, showing public displays of high-definition television. There were three main ways of storing HDTV (or HDVS) at that time: Reel-to-reel tape (HDV-1000), cartridge tape (HDV-10 "UniHi"), & 12" Laserdisc-style discs (HDL-5800 / HDL-2000). This footage came from one of the Laserdisc-style discs.
These HDVS discs could only hold a maximum of 15 minutes of video (on CLV discs, even less on CAV discs)...but it held uncompressed, raw high-definition component video! Take that, Blu-Ray!
"Koichi Inakoshi - Paris" is an early analog high-definition recording which combines Koichi Inakoshi's high-definition imagery of Paris, France with the eclectic soundtrack of Shigeaki Saegusa. Koichi Inakoshi is a Japanese photographer and videographer who is known for his rather avant-garde photography of landscapes along with celebrity photography. He also did a decent amount of work for Sony, producing other concept BGV discs such as "Koichi Inakoshi - Tokyo" (which I previously uploaded). Shigeaki Saegusa is a Japanese composer who is known for his adventurous/experimental jazz-fusion tracks and his contributions to animes such as Mobile Suit Z/ZZ Gundam and Heart Cocktail. All songs in "Paris" are from his 1988 album "眼" (Pronounced "meh", meaning "eye/vision"). "Paris" was also a popular advertising tool by Sony for the HDVS system and many advertisements and promotions featured screen shots or segments from this recording.
Enjoy this very special video that was never available to the public in the original HD presentation until now!
Fun fact: Look at the sides of the image. Do you see that they don't fill your TV/monitor? Since this was recorded on the original 1984 pure-analog HDVS system, it also was recorded in the original, more-square 5:3 aspect ratio that NHK & Sony chose for the original HDTV system. By 1988, the HDTV standard was standardized to the 16:9 aspect ratio that began to be used on all HDTV systems forward and that we continue to use to this day; however, the hardware took a couple more years to be updated to 16:9. Surprisingly, YouTube supports videos uploaded in 5:3 aspect ratio so dust off & plug in your favorite 16:10 monitor to see less black bars than on a 16:9 monitor!
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Chapters (by song):
00:20 - CRYPTOGAM (隠花植物)
04:04 - ORCUS (死神)
08:13 - AMANDA (アマンダ)
10:47 - DROWNING (溺死)
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This was recorded off on a Sony HDL-2000 Videodisc player which outputs true analog component (1035i) video. Uploaded in upscaled 4K ProRes for extra clarity!
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Be sure to to check out part 2 here: youtube.com/watch?v=GjuDTrEOPdU
More of my vintage HDTV uploads can be found in this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3eMpGbSBzjiF1cdU2MkFBAc34D6HONoC
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If you want to follow me for updates or help me afford to rent a car to endlessly drive in circles around the Arc de Triomphe, 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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