XDCAM Station Range

Announced at IBC 2010, XDCAM Station is a family of professional media recorders that bridge the worlds of SxS Memory card and Professional Disc. They are exceptionally flexible in operation and enable even more creative options for XDCAM users. Typical applications include broadcast centres where customers can use XDCAM Station as an ingest gateway for SxS memory card and Professional Disc media, and also on location for live applications and material sharing between camera operators and production staff.

There will be three models in the line-up:

• XDS-1000 - featuring an SxS Memory card slot and internal HDD storage
• XDS-PD1000 - featuring an SxS Memory card slot, a Professional Disc drive and internal HDD storage
• XDS-PD2000 - featuring an SxS Memory card slot, a Professional Disc drive and internal SSD storage

Depending upon the model chosen, customers can copy material from SxS memory card or Professional Disc onto the Hard Disc or Solid State storage within the XDCAM Station. The material can then be accessed for non linear editing or can be replayed under slow motion control. SDI input and output and network capability allows the device to function as an MXF gateway linking XDCAM media, baseband video and networked operation. The Professional Disc based models will also be able to record and read Sony’s new higher capacity 128GB Quad Layer Professional Discs, PFD128QLW.

The XDS-1000 will be available from March 2011, with the XDS-PD1000 and PD2000 available in summer 2011 along with PFD128QLW.

Recommended media for XDCAM Station series are:
SxS PRO: SBP-32, SBP-16, SBP-8
SxS-1: SBS-64G1A, SBS-32G1A, SBS-32G1 (only SBS-32G1 needs firmware upgrade in the memory media itself.