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Betacam SX

1/2-inch Component Digital Videocassette (Metal Tape)

A superior product unsurpassed in its reliability for ENG/EFP operations under various environmental conditions.

Features

BETACAM SX achieves 4:2:2 component digital recording and backward compatibility with BETACAM/BETACAM SP, also providing high interface ability with non-linear editing systems and video servers.
Maxell has employed its highly reliable tape production technologies and highly accurate cassette mechanism in the development of BETACAM SP and Digital BETACAM, and has now capitalized on those technologies in the development of BETACAM SX to optimize smooth tape travel.
A superior product unsurpassed in its reliability for ENG/EFP operations under various environmental conditions.
A unique process of minimizing tape shrinkage is incorporated which achieves superior stability characteristics suitable for long-term storage such as video archiving.

		Unit	Typical value
Physical properties	Tape width	mm	12.650
	Tape thickness	µm	14.0
	Magnetic layer thickness	µm	1.5
	Base film thickness	µm	11.7
	Backcoating thickness	µm	0.8
	Yield strength	N (kgf)	22 (2.2)
	Breaking strength	N (kgf)	43 (4.4)
	Residual elongation	%	0.06
	Magnetic layer electrical resistance		1 × 10¹⁰
Magnetic properties	Coercivity (Hc)	kA/m (Oe)	127 (1,600)
	Retentivity (Br)	mT (G)	250 (2,500)
	Squareness ratio (Br/Bm)	-	0.84
Video properties	Optimum recording current	%	100
	RF output (25.7MHz)*	dB	0
	C/N*	dB	0

* Indicates a comparison with MAXELL reference tape.

**BETACAM SX is a trademark of SONY Corporation.

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