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Posted by Richard Crowley on 04/16/06 05:08
"Bible John" wrote
> "Richard Crowley" wrote
>> Most people have DVD players now. You can get a
>> reasonably nice one for $50
>
> As do I. I have 3 DVD players.
As do your customers. (Which was my point)
>> Avoid DVD if you want to do any subsequent editing, etc.
>
> This is what I hear. But this may change in time.
The format that DVD video discs use is cast in concrete.
I can't see anything that could be identified as a change
in our lifetimes. It will take a whole new format (like
"Blu-Ray") to change the state of DVD MPEG
performance.
> MPEG is light years ahead of the Windows Media
> format that my Palm Zire 72 uses. And even more
> light years ahead of crappy cell phone video.
Then you haven't seen MPEG that is compressed to
the same rate as your Zire gadget.
> But then again Zire 72 movies can be posted to the
> web, and MPEG videos cannot without irritating
> many people (even those over broadband).
Note that there are a very wide limits of encoding
choices, bit-rates, etc. etc. for both MPEG and for
WMV (and for Quicktime/MOV/MP4, and for RV)
One must compare apples with apples for any kind
of valid differential evaluation.
> They made video cameras that write to a hard drive?
> I heard there was a camcorder that wrote to a memory
> card, but I cant imagine how one would capture 60
> minutes of video on any memory card sold today.
There is a pro HD format that will record 10-20 minutes
on a swolen memory "card" that likely cost more than your
whole camcorder. :-) Clearly made for short-form shooting
(news, film-style features, etc.) rather than for any kind of
long-form taping.
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