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Video
Recording >
Formats
> 3/4 inch
3/4
inch:
Image
quality: good
Generation
loss: Yes. But you can go 3 generations before it
looks too bad.
Recording
method: Composite
Digital
or Analog: Analog
Other
incarnations: 3/4 SP
Uses:
Three-quarter (by the way, it is always pronounced "three-quarter"
NEVER "three-fourths") was the first truly
portable video format. It was a godsend in the 1970s,
when the only real alternative was to shoot movie film.
Since then, lots of smaller, better formats have come
on the market. But 3/4-inch is still widely used at
many stations because it is the one of the few formats
that nearly every station has (Interestingly, many TV
stations and production companies don’t have even
one VHS machine!). And many stations have their tape
library on 3/4-inch. Make no mistake, 3/4 IS dying.
It’s just that it’s dying slowly because it
has been around for so long.
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Thye're big and clunky--but every
station and production company has
a 3/4-inch deck. And that's an asset
in itself.
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