Panasonic D-3 is an uncompressed composite digital video videocassette format invented at NHK and introduced commercially by Panasonic. It was launched in 1991 to compete with AMPEX‘s D-2.
The AJ-D350E D3 is equipped with several audio an video outputs: XLR, composite, component and Digital parallel I/O.
Digital Archiving of videotape formats that hold digitally recorded video signals – such as Panasonic’s D3 – is preferably done using the VTR’s digital interface. However, a decoder is required to convert the digital composite signal from the D3’s parallel digital output into digital component (SDI) signals.
Only after such signal conversion, it’s possible to feed the signal into a workstation equipped with a modern SDI interface capture card.
