D-5 is a professional digital video format introduced by Panasonic at 18th International Television Symposium in Montreux in 1993 and released a year later in 1994.

D-5 runs at different data rates for different formats: [8] HD material is often captured for post production of film projects, whereby the D-5 HD scanning equipment is cheaper by the hour than a full resolution 2K film scan.

[citation needed] As of 2010, no D-5 HD camcorders have been offered for sale.

Panasonic instead markets P2 camcorders for field production of 720p or 1080i and 1080p images.

[9] In 2007, Panasonic introduced an add-on box (AJ-HDP2000) that allows a standard D-5 VTR to encode 2K (2048 x 1080) resolution material with 4:4:4 color space onto D-5 tape using the industry standard JPEG2000 wavelet-based compression.