Tour of Japan / Variety Show Analog HD Segments (1990s HDVS UNIHI MUSE LD Transfer Video Footage) скачать в хорошем качестве

Tour of Japan / Variety Show Analog HD Segments (1990s HDVS UNIHI MUSE LD Transfer Video Footage)

This is a compilation of early HDTV segments of various locations in Japan along with elements of a variety show as recorded onto a UNIHI analog HD video cassette. It is currently unknown what this footage was used for; however, we get to see various beautiful images of Japan from Tsuruga City, Miura City, & Ochi Town. This footage is interrupted/overwritten with some female kickline dancers from some kind of large variety show. Unfortunately, not much else is known about the origin or use of this footage. Based on the artifacts (and other unshown test signals), the footage was originally recorded to MUSE LaserDisc and copied to UNIHI. UNIHI is the first HDTV video cassette format. An acronym for "UNIfied HI-Vision," UNIHI was developed by the NHK between 1986 & 1989 with the input & consensus between 10 other Japanese companies including Panasonic, Sony, NEC, Hitachi, and more. Before UNIHI, HDTV recordings could only be made and transported via 1" open reel tapes that were huge, expensive, difficult to maintain, and time-consuming to thread. UNIHI was designed to be a portable, intermediate format which could be quickly & cheaply duplicated and transferred between studios and deployments such as MUSE analog HD television stations, professional presentations, and international production houses. As a result, UNIHI uses a 1/2" video cassette format in a VHS-sized cassette to house up to 63 minutes of uncompressed component analog HD video of fairly comparable quality to the original analog 1" video tape machines. The tape housing and maintainable parts (such as heads) are fairly simplistic while most of the "magic" happens in the electronic domain; a smart move to keep long-term maintenance costs low at a time when technology was rapidly advancing. Unfortunately, UNIHI's existence was short lived. It's mass release appears to have been delayed until at least 1991, and even then it had very little uptake as there were few HDTV deployments that needed the ability to hand off tapes, especially outside of Japan. By 1995, the first (largely superior) digital HD video cassettes were released, and since UNIHI was 1035 line, 60 fields per second only, it was incompatible with the American 720p and 1080i formats. Enjoy these interesting segments! ________________________________________________ This was captured off of a mechanically & electrically restored Panasonic AU-HD1500 UNIHI video tape recorder which outputs true analog component (1035i) video. Uploaded in upscaled 4K ProRes for extra clarity! Note: Audio is present but is very quiet due to loud digital artifacts. Turn you volume up at your own risk! ________________________________________________ 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 help me afford a canoe to bring to Ochi Town the next time I'm in Japan, please click the link below: https://linktr.ee/OpWorkshop