Thursday, 15 December 2011

Use in broadcast television

HDV is accustomed for advertisement TV use with capricious restrictions.

Discovery Channel chose HDV handhelds for cutting Deadliest Catch admitting their bargain ablaze acuteness and a ample abyss of focus, because abate cameras were added good for aggregation assurance and they abort several dozen of cameras per series.40 HDV camcorders were additionally acclimated for cutting MythBusters.

In February 2009 ITV News bought 68 Sony HVR-Z5E handheld camcorders for its multi-skilling journalists.40 The camcorders, which appear with non-removable 20x lens and outfitted with CompactFlash recorders became accepted amid journalists who are not accomplished camera operators.41

In the TV alternation JAG fabricated for CBS, handheld HDV camcorders were acclimated for scenes area beyond HD cameras would accept been impractical.

The BBC has adopted HDV cameras as backup for DV camcorders to aftermath widescreen accepted analogue content.42 Acceptability of HDV footage for all-embracing HD programming is bound to no added than 25% of programming agreeable if the contributed actual meets one of the bristles "technical exemption" categories: Artistic interest, Historical interest, Actuality material, Early television and cinema or Home videos.43 Restrictions for calm HD programming are beneath stringent.

The Discovery HD Theater accepts agreeable sourced from 1080-line HDV camcorders, but banned it to 15% of a accomplished program. Producers adulatory to use HDV are appropriate to abide an accustomed postproduction aisle analogue their administration of the footage in the alteration process.6 The Discovery Channel HD advertisement has beneath or no guidelines and accepts a mix of XDCAM HD, HDV and AVCHD for the breadth of a program. For example, Discovery Channel aired 911: The Bronx, a six-episode absoluteness alternation set in a hospital and attempt with HDV cameras.4445 Several episodes of Survivorman were attempt with the Sony HVR-Z1U and HDR-HC3 camcorders.46

The Discovery Channel All-embracing uses appraisement arrangement that defines Gold, Silver and Bronze accretion and commitment levels. Depending on accurate camera accomplish and archetypal and on post-production process, HDV footage can be rated as Silver HD, Bronze HD, or widescreen SD.47 In particular, some users accede Canon HDV camcorders to bear the best-looking angel with the atomic bulk of compression artifacts amid the models accepting 25 Mbit/s MPEG-2 HD codec.2248

The PBS accepts HDV for widescreen programming accretion and to a bound admeasurement for use in HD programs.49 PBS may acquiesce acceptance of "less than abounding advertisement affection equipment" if compression artifacts are "not accessible back beheld on an HDTV monitor".50 For example, the Art Wolfe's TV alternation Travels to the Edge was produced for PBS in HDV architecture application Canon XL-H1 camcorders.51

The Travel Channel HD agilely accepts HDV footage. For example, Sony HDV camcorders were acclimated for assembly of awful acclaimed Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations program, amid added cameras.5253 Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern and its aftereffect Bizarre World are attempt with Sony HDV cameras as well.54 Madventures was attempt with the Sony EX1 XDCAM EX camera commutual with the Sony HVR-A1U HDV camcorder.55

Current TV acclimated Sony HDV camcorders to shoot episodes for Vanguard TV series.

Guiding Light, the longest-running soap opera in assembly in television and radio history, bankrupt abroad from acceptable three-sided sets and pedestal-style cameras in 2008, allotment the handheld Canon XH-G1 for cutting on applied locations.56

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