What is better mini dv or hard drive camcorder?

Question

which one is better mini dv or hard drive camcorder. whitch one has better picture quality.

Answer 1

As stated above. Mini-DV camcorders will provide less compression and therefore betterpicture quality than a hardrive or dvd camcorder. Although many people feel mini-dv is old technology: video purists seeking the best looking video image still prefer mini-dv

Answer 2

If you use a camera that takes mini-dv, then after every hour of taping you have a little tape that can be removed from the camera and stored somewhere safe. Even when you transfer your video to a computer you still have the little tape that can be filed away as a backup copy.

This means that if your camera gets lost, damaged, or stolen, you don't lose the precious video that you have collected.

Remember, videos like pictures tend to become more valuable to you the older they are. So it is worth keeping a backup copy of everything you record.

As a bonus, there is currently less compression of the video that goes onto a tape compared with what goes onto a disk.

Answer 3

Any media that compresses the least. In the case of miniDV, the storage format is DV (or HDV if a high definition camcorder shooting hidef video). Because miniDV tape uses these storage formates - least compression - the video quality is best. There are hard drives for camcorders that can store in DV or HDV, but they are external.

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Typically, consumer hard drive camcorders compress a lot (MPEG2 for standard def; AVCHD for hidef). When the video is compressed this much at the start of the process, anything downstream cannot expect best video quality.

Video compression = discarded data = reduced video quality.