Sony's The Flight Of A Lifetime (1993 Digital HDTV HDD-1000 1035i HDVS European Demonstration Video)

This is "The Flight Of A Lifetime," a promotional short produced by Sony Europe (Germany) to promote the nascent HDVS HDTV system. This footage was recorded and recovered in uncompressed 1035i HD via the legendary Sony HDD-1000 digital HDTV VTR.

HD activated! With the power of Sony's HDVS system, we can fly over mountains, travel the world, and visit realms that only exist in your imagination! This promotional video gives us a short overview of the HDVS system and some of the amazing things that the system is capable of. It appears that this was featured at a couple of trade shows in Europe.

The Sony HDD-1000 was the world's first commercially available digital HDTV recording format and was also the world's first uncompressed digital HDTV recording device. First demonstrated in 1987, the HDD-1000 was an incredible feat of engineering capable of data storage and processing deemed unrealistic to achieve in a mass-produced piece of hardware one year earlier. Storing uncompressed 1920x1035 interlaced video with 8 channels of uncompressed 48kHz DASH PCM digital audio, the HDD-1000 was capable of recording data at an incredible 1.2 Gbps onto a 11.75"-diameter (63 minute), 1"-wide metal tape for a total capacity of over 4.5 Tb per tape! This recorder was also the first HDTV recorder capable of editing digitally for completely lossless results, thus, it found use in high-quality compositing applications like this one!

Enjoy this fun promotional short!

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This was recorded off on a Sony HDD-1000 1" HDTV open reel VTR. Uploaded in upscaled 4K ProRes for extra clarity!

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