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Shinzo Maeda & William Ackerman: Hills of The Seasons - Summer (1988 Analog HDTV HDVS Video Disc)

This is part 2, "Summer," of "Shinzo Maeda: Hills of The Seasons Featuring The Music of William Ackerman" (HDP-1466-2) from a Sony-made high-definition 12" HDVS videodisc. The HDVS disc format was designed to be a highly portable 12" laserdisc-derived media format for Sony's "High-Definition Video System" or "Hi-Vision" back in the early 1990's! Back then, high definition was a little different from how it is now. It was analog (not digital) & close to but slightly different in resolution to the 1080i picture we receive over the air today as it was technically 1125i/1035i. Before the earliest high-definition media was available to the public (via satellite, MUSE Laserdisc, & W-VHS tapes), Sony and other companies began shooting footage, doing research, and, showing public displays of high-definition television. There were three main ways of storing HDTV (or HDVS) at that time: Reel-to-reel tape (HDV-1000), cartridge tape (HDV-10 "UniHi"), & 12" Laserdisc-style discs (HDL-5800 / HDL-2000). This footage came from one of the Laserdisc-style discs. These HDVS discs could only hold a maximum of 15 minutes of video (on CLV discs, even less on CAV discs)...but it held uncompressed, raw high-definition component video! Take that, Blu-Ray! "Hills of the Seasons" is one of earliest HDTV recordings to have been shown & sold to the public. Recorded between 1986 and 1987, "Hills of the Seasons" (Shiki no Oka) was commissioned by Sony to Japanese landscape photographer Shinzo Maeda in order to show the capabilities of the then 2-year-old Sony analog HDVS system. Shinzo Maeda and his crew set up base in Biei, Hokkaido, Japan where footage was filmed over the course of a full year. This footage was then edited to create four, 30-minute videos, each representing a season. The recordings ended up becoming a landmark in video production history, and Sony ended up releasing it on more formats than other analog HDVS recording with either segments or the full videos appearing on ED Beta, LaserDisc, MUSE HD LaserDisc, DVD, and more. The videos were reedited in 1988 into one 60-minute "Four Seasons" movie featuring a revised soundtrack by Windham Hill's William Ackerman as presented here. This is one of four aforementioned recordings comprising the "Hills of The Seasons" movie, with each representing a season. Of particular interest is that the content is presented the original 5:3 aspect ratio which was NHK & Sony's original HDTV aspect ratio before being changed to 16:9 in 1988. This incredibly beautiful recording is not only a display of the high resolution & great potential of Sony's ancient HDTV system, but it is a true work of art which can hardly be matched to this day. Note: The songs featured in this recording were released on William Ackerman's album Imaginary Roads. The image on the cover of the album is credited to Shinzo Maeda! A few of Windham Hill's albums released between 1985 & 1989 featured his photography as cover art. Please sit back, relax, and enjoy! ________________________________________________ Chapters (by William Ackerman song title): 00:00 - The Prospect Of Darrow's Barn And The Blossoms Of An Apple Spring On Imaginary Road 03:35 - Brother A Teaches 7 06:35 - Anne's Song 10:11 - Dawn Treader ________________________________________________ If you'd like to see the original paper insert that came with this disc, I've scanned it for viewing here: https://archive.org/details/hdvs-disc... This was played back on a Sony HDL-2000 Videodisc player which outputs analog component (1035i) video. Uploaded in upscaled 4K ProRes for extra clarity! Note: This is uploaded in the original 5:3 aspect ratio. Surprisingly, YouTube supports videos uploaded in 5:3 aspect ratio so dust off & plug in your favorite 16:10 monitor to see less black bars than on a 16:9 monitor! ________________________________________________ More of my vintage HDTV uploads can be found in this playlist:    • World's Oldest High-Definition Footage (Cl...   ________________________________________________ If you want to follow me for updates or want to help me purchase bikinis for all my trees, please click the link below: https://linktr.ee/OpWorkshop