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Old 05-06-2006, 09:58 PM
Jason Dunn
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Originally Posted by jeffd
...the fact that its best quality setting is 9mbps tells me that the actuall cpu chip in these DV cameras have not gotten any more powerfull in the past years, but instead they just use less compression
Less compression is GOOD - the chief knock against these cameras is that editing highly compressed MPEG2 video then saving it out again as MPEG2 results in poor quality. So ideally, the camera should compress as little as possible, retaining quality. Seems like good news to me!
 
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