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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sony HDVS was a
range of high-definition professional Video cameras, video monitors and
editing equipment, developed by Sony in the 1980s. Sony first
demonstrated a high-definition-capable video-camera, monitor and
tape-recorder in April 1981. The HDVS range was launched in April 1984,
with the HDC-100 camera, HDV-100 video recorder and HDS-100 video mixer
all working in the 1125-line interlaced 5:3 aspect ratio. The first film
shot using HDVS HDTV Cameras was Giulia e Giulia (Julia and Julia) in
1987, the first HDTV television show CBC's Chasing Rainbows was shot
using the HDVS system in 1988. The HDVS brand and logo is still used by
Sony nowadays (as "Digital HDVS", since the original HDVS line of
equipment from 1984 used wideband analog video to achieve the 1125 lines
of resolution) on their current digital high-definition HDCAM-format
cameras such as the Sony HDW-750 and HDW-F900.
