Recording Format - Raw Content Formats

Raw Content Formats

A raw content format is a system of converting data to displayable information. Raw content formats may either be recorded in secondary signal processing methods such as a software container format (e.g. digital audio, digital video) or recorded in the primary format. A primary raw content format may be directly observable (e.g. image, sound, motion, smell, sensation) or physical data which only requires hardware to display it, such as a phonographic needle and diaphragm or a projector lamp and magnifying glass.

Audio recording formats
Analog
  • Phonautogram (1857)
  • Phonograph cylinder (1877)
  • Gramophone record (1894)
  • Wire recording (1898)
  • Sound-on-film (1919)
  • Reel-to-reel tape (1940s)
  • SoundScriber (1945)
  • Gray Audograph (1945)
  • Dictabelt (1947)
  • LP record (1948)
  • 45 rpm record (1949)
  • On-the-ribs recordings (late 1940s)
  • RCA tape cartridge (1958)
  • Fidelipac (1959)
  • Stereo-Pak (1962)
  • Audio cassette (1963)
  • 8-track (1964)
  • PlayTape (1966)
  • Mini-Cassette (1967)
  • Microcassette (1969)
  • Steno-Cassette (1971)
  • Elcaset (1976)
  • Cassette single (1980)
  • Picocassette (1985)
Digital
  • Soundstream (1976)
  • X80/ProDigi (1980)
  • Compact Disc (1982)
  • DASH (1982)
  • Digital Audio Tape (1987)
  • ADAT (1991)
  • MiniDisc (1992)
  • NT (1992)
  • Digital Compact Cassette (1992)
  • DA-88 (1993)
  • High Definition Compatible Digital (1995)
  • 5.1 Music Disc (1997)
  • Super Audio CD (1999)
  • DVD-Audio (2000)
  • USB flash drive (as audio format) (2004)
  • Hi-MD (2004)
  • slotMusic (2008)
  • BD-Audio (2008)
Video storage formats
Videotape
Analog
  • Quadruplex (1956)
  • VERA (1958)
  • Ampex 2 inch helical VTR (1961)
  • Sony 2 inch helical VTR (1961)
  • Type A (1965)
  • CV-2000 (1965)
  • Akai (1967)
  • U-matic (1969)
  • EIAJ-1 (1969)
  • Cartrivision (1972)
  • Philips VCR (1972)
  • V-Cord (1974)
  • VX (1974)
  • Betamax (1975)
  • IVC (1975)
  • Type B (1976)
  • Type C (1976)
  • VHS (1976)
  • VK (1977)
  • SVR (1979)
  • Video 2000 (1980)
  • CVC (1980)
  • VHS-C (1982)
  • M (1982)
  • Betacam (1982)
  • Video8 (1985)
  • MII (1986)
  • S-VHS (1987)
  • S-VHS-C (1987)
  • Hi8 (1989)
  • Ruvi (1998)
Digital
  • D1 (1986)
  • D2 (1988)
  • D3 (1991)
  • DCT (1992)
  • Digital Betacam (1993)
  • D5 (1994)
  • Digital-S (D9) (1995)
  • Betacam SX (1996)
  • Digital8 (1999)
  • MicroMV (2001)
High Definition
  • Sony HDVS (1984)
  • UniHi (1984)
  • W-VHS (1994)
  • HDCAM (1997)
  • D-VHS (1998)
  • D6 HDTV VTR (2000)
  • HDV (2003)
  • HDCAM SR (2003)
Videodisc
Analog
  • Phonovision (1927)
  • Ampex-HS (1967)
  • TeD (1975)
  • Laserdisc (1978)
  • CED (1981)
  • VHD (1983)
  • Laserfilm (1984)
  • CD Video (1987)
Digital
  • VCD (1993)
  • MovieCD (c. 1995)
  • DVD (1996)
  • MiniDVD (c. 1996)
  • DVD-Video (1997)
  • CVD (1998)
  • SVCD (1998)
  • EVD (2003)
  • HVD (High-Definition Versatile Disc) (2004)
  • FVD (2005)
  • UMD (2005)
  • VMD (2006)
High Definition
  • MUSE Hi-Vision LD (1994)
  • HD DVD (2006)
  • Blu-ray Disc (2006)
  • HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc) (2007)
  • CBHD (China Blue High-definition Disc) (2008)
Digital
Media agnostic
  • DV (1995)
  • DVCPRO (1995)
  • DVCAM (1996)
  • DVCPRO50 (1997)
  • DVCPRO HD (2000)
Tapeless
  • Editcam (1995)
  • XDCAM (2003)
  • MOD (2005)
  • AVCHD (2006)
  • AVC-Intra (2006)
  • TOD (2007)
  • iFrame (2009)
Solid state
  • P2 (2004)
  • SxS (2007)
Video recorded to film
  • Kinescope (1947)
  • Electronicam kinescope (1950s)
  • Electronic Video Recording (1967)

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