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.

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

Connect using S Video cables, or
standard video and audio cables.

Digital Connectors

Connect using an iLINK cable.

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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

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
and play back video or audio.

MICROMV

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
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
may be some limitations to the use of this type of
cable.

MICROMV

Analogue Connectors

Other kinds of cassettes

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

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.

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MICROMV

MICROMV

Digital Connectors

Digital Connectors

MICROMV Compliant

MICROMV compliant equipment
equipped with iLINK terminals

MICROMV digital video

Digital video equipment equipped
with iLINK terminals, but not
MICROMV compliant

Digital video Digital 8
Digital tuners D-VHS
DV video cameras DVD, etc.
Hard disk video