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New Digital Tape Recording System for Professional Use 1. Introduction The advent of digítal média has brought about new multimédia and interactive technoiogies with a voracious demand for videó content. Even in more traditionai applications such as broadcasting, the superb quality, ease of handling, consistency, systems flexibility, and computer compatibility of digital média are so attractive that digitalization of broadcasting equipment is proceeding rapidly in every product category. Those same advantages make widespread adoption of digital technology in the professional field inevitable. JVC has been concentrating on developing and marketing products for Professional S applications. JVC is now applying and taking advantage of digital technology wherever possible to improve the usabilitv, quality, and overall performance of our leading-edge Professional S systems. While recent trends in digitalization have focused on the development of new disc média, tape média remain of critical importance. In the future disc and tape devices will coexist, with one or the other or both being used depending on the requirements of a given application. When selecting a médium, the foilowing advantages offered by tape should be considered: 1) Longer recording time 2) Lower cost of média 3) Easy to handlé, rugged and reliable 4) Compatibility with existing applications throughout the production chain - from acquisition and editing to transmission and reproduction. The basic concept underlying our development of tape-based digital products focuses on the foilowing three poínts: 1) An economical, cost-effective solution for customers 2) Compatibility and continuity with existing infrastructure 3) Improvement of multi-generation picture quality Keeping these points in mind, we have successfullv developed a new professional videó formát "DIGITAL S" which offers users the advantages of digitalization together with superior cost/performance ratio of the proven ¦ Professional S tape transport and mechanism.