The Sony DSR-1800P is a PAL System DVCAM studio edit deck that also plays back consumer DV cassettes. This is a full-featured deck ready for any edit environment, even old-school linear, tape to tape edit suites. It can take analog inputs and output to digital tape or take a digital source and output an analog signal. It also sports Dynamic Motion Control for the ability to stretch or compress real time images to your insert editing needs. As an added bonus, the machine will even play all DVCPRO tape sizes including medium size.