This standard is applicable to magnetic recording of one digital video and four digital audio signals using 19 mm tape cassettes. It is valid for TV signals in digital component form, generated according to the rules of the CCIR Recommendations 601 and 656 and for digital audio signals according to IEC Publication 958.
This standard also describes the digital recording of ancillary data and the analog recording of one cue track and the control track.
BS EN 61016:2001 history
2001BS EN 61016:2001 Helical-scan digital component video cassette recording system using 19 mm magnetic tape (format D-1)