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Originally Posted by iserum
minidv is best out there, HDD and DVD recording are compressed and difficult to edit as compared to Minidv AVI format files.
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That may be true, but it's false to say MiniDV is not compressed. The "DV" codec is basically a series of JPEG-type pictures one after the other..... and those pictures are lossy-compressed with much of the original picture thrown-away. (And the high-definition variant of MiniDV is MPEG2... same flaws as DVD has and difficult to edit.)
So yes MiniDV is compressed and also lossy.
Now:
How's the dropout rate? Is it necessary to clean a MiniDV vcr every 100 hours (like with D-VHS) to avoid getting drop-out on your images?