Sony THE MICROMV BROCHURE

Compatibility between MICROMV devices and previous devices

Because MICROMV is different from systems used by previous video devices, cassettes and some connection methods used with previous devices can not be used. Please refer to the following when you have questions about compatibility.

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MICROMV utilizes MPEG2

The MICROMV system is different from currently available DV (Digital Video) and analogue video or television, in that it uses MPEG2, the image compression technology utilized in DVD or D-VHS devices. With this technology, the same

high resolution available with DV can be recorded and played back from a

smaller 60-minute tape. Utilizing this advantage, more and more MICROMV digital devices can be

expected on the market.

Analogue Connectors	Digital Connectors
Connect using S Video cables, or	Connect using an iLINK cable.
standard video and audio cables.

Be sure to use special MICROMV cassettes for recording and playback.

The size of MICROMV cassettes and the MICROMV recording system are different from those of DV or analogue video. To record or playback on MICROMV equipment, please use special MICROMV cassettes. You cannot use MICROMV cassettes in non-MICROMV equipment.

Special MICROMV cassettes

Other kinds of cassettes

	You can use an ordinary	Analogue Connectors
	television set
	You can use S Video cables, or standard video and
	audio cables to connect to an ordinary television set	MICROMV
	and play back video or audio.

An ordinary television equipped with S Video or standard video and audio terminals

You can connect ordinary video equipment using analogue cables

	Signals transmitted over analogue cables such as S
	Video cables, or standard video and audio cables, are			Analogue Connectors
	the same for both MICROMV and previous video
	equipment. So you can carry out dubbing and editing
	tasks using previously available analogue cables.
	However, digital television and video software uses
	special technology to protect copy rights, so there	MICROMV
	may be some limitations to the use of this type of
	cable.

Digital Video equipment, using this method, can also perform

editing or dubbing.

However, the image quality and sound quality will be comparable to that of

analogue equipment.

Video equipment equipped with S Video or standard video and audio terminals

Both machines can use digital connections when equipped with MICROMV

Because the MICROMV system records images using MPEG2, DV system equipment with digital iLINK connections will not allow dubbing. Also, because of differences in the content of the signals of some video equipment using the same MPEG2, digital connections cannot be used.

For iLINK digital connections, please be sure that both ends of the connection use MICROMV compliant equipment.

Digital Connectors	MICROMV compliant equipment
	equipped with iLINK terminals
MICROMV	MICROMV digital video
	MICROMV Compliant
Digital Connectors	Digital video equipment equipped
	with iLINK terminals, but not
	MICROMV compliant
MICROMV	Digital video	Digital 8
	Digital tuners	D-VHS
	DV video cameras	DVD, etc.
	Hard disk video

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