Talk:M (videocassette format)

	Television portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Television, a collaborative effort to develop and improve Wikipedia articles about television programs. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page where you can join the discussion. To improve this article, please refer to the style guidelines for the type of work.TelevisionWikipedia:WikiProject TelevisionTemplate:WikiProject Televisiontelevision articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Broadcast engineering and technology task force (assessed as Low-importance).

PAL / NTSC[edit]

Does anyone know if the M format was ever released in PAL format? Colin99 (talk) 10:32, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on M (videocassette format). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20120218005820/http://dcvideo.com/obsolete-video-formats/panasonic-m-and-m2.html to http://dcvideo.com/obsolete-video-formats/panasonic-m-and-m2.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 06:22, 29 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sony reference[edit]

Posted to article by IP editor ~Kvng (talk) 15:18, 5 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

RE: reference to Sony below: It is more likely that Betacam was developed in response to M. RCA was the big name at the time and Sony was doing very well in pro market with their 3/4". RCA asked Panasonic to make a format that was both better (approximately equivalent to 1" type c in quality and small enough to make the first one piece camcorder - the HAWKEYE. In a major reorganization, RCA soon abandoned the broadcast camera/VTR business. M was slightly superior (particularly in the reds vs blues as it dedicated more bandwidth to the RED area, which is somewhat more important visually. Sony gave bandwidth equally to RED and blue for engineering reasons.) M failed versus Betacam mainly because Sony had 90 percent of the 3/4" market and they made it easy to edit from a Sony Betacam player to a Sony 3/4" edit deck. Both Panasonic and Sony promoted the idea of the camcorder for shooting in the field (rather than the existing camera recording to a separate 3/4" recorder) and editing to 3/4" to lessen the cost of transition. however the vast majority of stations had Sony edit decks and Sony edit controllers vs Panasonic - they tended toward Sony.