Best video format in digital cameras

Question

I'm shopping for a digital camera with some decent video capabilities in the $100-150 range. I see that cameras record in different video formats. Which is best? AVI? MPEG? MOV??

Answer 1

avi

Answer 2

AVI is best because it is the full sized video quality.

The other options are resized and compressed, which means smaller file size but lesser quality.

Afterwards, on your computer, you can always reduce the size/quality if needed, but if you don't have it there to start with, you can't get it out of nowhere.