Sony DSR-40 VCR

Digital technology has opened up new opportunities in virtually every business arena, and professional video production has been no exception. The migration toward digital has brought about great advances in image quality and equipment functionality. With its professional reliability and system flexibility, the DVCAM format meets the demanding requirements of video professionals for operational efficiency, superb editing capabilities and multi-generation quality. The DVCAM format is the professional extension of the home-use DV format. This means that the DSR-40 is capable of playing back DV recorded tapes without any special adaptor. This is very convenient, for instance, when playing back DV recorded tapes as source material.

The new DSR-40 DVCAM digital videocassette recorder is half rack size. This unit offers i.LINK, Control S and RS-422A remote control interfaces. The i.LINK interface enables the transfer of DVCAM's superior image and sound quality without the conversion to analog. RS-422A allows for the DSR-40 to be used as a feeder in low cost editing systems. Analog component and XLR audio outputs are available. Being equipped with DV In / Out, DSR-40 allows digital dubbing and editing with virtually no quality loss. The DV I / O (based on IEEE-1394) can be connected to third party video capture boards that support the DV In / Out interface for desktop editing. Dubbing has just been made easier with a convenient front panel dub key. When connected to another VTR or camcorder with the i.LINK (DV I / O) connection, a simple push of a button allows dubbing of the original tape and its time code. The DSR-40 is equipped with a Reference Video input terminal for synchronized playback with other VTRs. This is convenient when a number of machines are in simultaneous playback of one or more sources and synchronizing VTRs during editing.

With all these features, DSR-40 offers superior picture and sound quality, long duration recording capability, simple editing operation, versatile recording / playback functions, user-friendly operations. This VTR is compact and lightweight, accepts both mini and standard size cassettes.