Sony PDW HD1500

High definition recording using MPEG-2 422P@HL compression at 50Mb/s data rate

Support for existing XDCAM HD and XDCAM SD formats

8 channels of digital audio

Dual-layer Disc (50GB) and Single-layer Disc (23.3GB) support

AC, DC or battery powered

HD/SD conversion and cross conversion output between 1080 and 720 (playback)

Built-in up/down converter and 1080/720 cross converter