1080 recording and playback at multiple frame rates: 23.98PsF, 24PsF, 25PsF, 29.97PsF, 50i, 59.94i in HDCAM and HDCAM-SR formats.

720P recording and playback (HDCAM-SR only)

The 5500/2 is equipped with 444 RGB SQ recording and playback as standard, so the HKSR-5003 is no longer needed.

High quality MPEG-4 studio profile compression

High quality audio recording: 12 channels, 24-bit audio at 48kHz in the HDCAM-SR format

Internal format conversion including up and down conversion, 4:4:4 to 4:2:2 conversion

Playback of Digital Betacam format tapes

Long recording time on a single cassette of up to 155 minutes at 1080/24PsF

User friendly controls

Frame accurate insert/assemble editing

High speed colour picture search

Dynamic tracking playback

Digital jog sound

Dynamic Motion Control (DMC) playback

Pre-read editing

Dynamic tracking playback

Confidence playback

Selectable picture modes including squeeze, letter box and edge crop

Audio output channel routing: can route audio to any HD-SDI or SDI output

Dual-sync operation

Off-speed playback capability

Built-in tele-file read/write capability

Metadata handling

Newly designed DT-Head

New HDCAM-SR tape formula for high realiability and durability

Easy maintenance