Digital Betacam or DigiBeta or Digi was launched in 1993 and it supercedes Betacam and Betacam SP. S tapes can hold up to 40 minutes and L tapes can hold up to 124 minutes.
Digital Betacam format records 10 bit signal YUV 4:2:2 sampling in NTSC (720×486) at a bit rate of 90 Mbit/s plus four channels of uncompressed 48 kHz / 20 bit PCM digital audio. The format was and is popular with broadcast facilities.