to a Betacam camcorder, a Betacam tape, a Betacam video recorder or the format itself. Both analog, and later, digital, variants of the Betacam format
of Betacam reduced the demand for both industrial Beta and U-matic equipment. For the professional and broadcast video industry, Sony derived Betacam from
variations, Sony's DVCAM and Panasonic's DVCPRO, and Betacam SX, a lower-cost variant of Digital Betacam using MPEG-2 compression. One of the first digital
high-definition video digital recording videocassette version of Digital Betacam introduced in 1997 that uses an 8-bit discrete cosine transform (DCT) compressed
(Sony) IVC 2" helical (IVC) 1⁄2" VERA (BBC) Analog cassette formats Betacam (Sony) Betacam SP (Sony) M (Panasonic and RCA) MII (Panasonic) U-matic (Sony) Standard-definition
(1979) 1/4" CVC (Funai) (1980) Betacam (Sony) (1982) VHS-C (JVC) (1982) HDVS (Sony) (1984) Video8 (Sony) (1986) Betacam SP (Sony) (1987) S-VHS (JVC) (1987)
Video8, Umatic 350 × 480: Betamax 420 × 480: Super Betamax, Betacam 460 × 480: Betacam SP, Umatic SP, NTSC (over-the-air TV) 580 × 480: Super VHS, Hi8
(videocassette format) Betamax Compact Video Cassette Betacam Betacam SP Digital Betacam Betacam SX MPEG IMX HDCAM HDCAM SR M (videocassette format) MII
by Panasonic in 1986 in competition with Sony's Betacam SP format. It was technically similar to Betacam SP, using metal-formulated tape loaded in the cassette
the country code top-level domain for Sint Maarten Betacam SX, a type of videotape for Betacam 1000BASE-SX, a fiber optic gigabit Ethernet standard