Posted by les on 01/11/85 11:58

Hello....
A buddy of mine who uses his cam for P.I. work has recently switched
to a Sony DCR-DVD105 camera and complains that the playback
image seems to "stutter" and has noticeable aliasing artifacts when he pans.
I haven't seen this myself, so I'm going on his description.
I thought about the possibility of an "I" and "P" conflict depending on the
device he watches for playback, and even when he views on a good NTSC
monitor and desktop DVD player, the stutter remains, as does the alias
issue.
I don't know what else could be wrong, but the notion that perhaps the
codec can't fully implement the compression adequately, or the CCD has
become the bottleneck perhaps in the alias problem is all I can think of.

I'd like some ideas on what you all think might be happening.
I've seen past comments on this usenet about miniDVD cams that were highly
critical. I wonder now if the tremendous high-compression on-the-fly
required
is the root of the evil in this format of recording...

Les KA9GLW

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