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Posted by PTravel on 02/12/07 22:00
"Richard Lane" <rqlhgl@iieee.org> wrote in message
news:eqqngt092c@enews4.newsguy.com...
> "The vast majority of consumers are buying DVD models on the premise of
> convenience," says Mitch Glick, assistant manager of marketing for Canon's
> camcorder division. Removing a disc from a camcorder and popping it into a
> DVD player is that format's main benefit. And though MiniDV still offers
> better video quality, Sony spokesperson Yolanda Hunt-Boes says that for
> most users, "The video quality [provided by DVD- and hard-disk-based
> models] is good enough for them."
> Deja vu VHS vs Betamax?
It's worse than that. The differences in video quality between VHS and
Betamax, at least in their final 2-hour SP incarnations, weren't anywhere
near as great as the differences between in-camera DVD and miniDV. Even
worse, both Sony and Canon are guilty of focusing exclusively on "good
enough for average consumers," and no longer manufacture consumer camcorders
of any kind that offer high-quality video -- you have to go to their
prosumer line to find that.
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