Digital Betacam (commonly referred to as Digibeta, d-beta, dbc or simply Digi) was launched in 1993. It supersedes both Betacam and Betacam SP, while costing significantly less than the D1 format and providing high quality and reliability.
S tapes are available with up
to 40 minutes running time, and L tapes with up to 124 minutes.
Digital Betacam equipment is the gold standard of formats for standard-definition DV, and is capable of outperforming cheaper digital formats such as DVCAM and DVCPRO, and associated equipment is comparatively expensive. Panasonic offers the DVCPRO50 competing format, which has similar technical abilities.
Digital Betacam is found in a blue cassette container.