Posted by Stuart on 03/22/07 09:59

"Mark W" <s@o> wrote in message
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> "Cori" <cmashieldscapting@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Okay, I bought me a Zenith VCR-DVD combo which burns DVDs and records
>> on VHS http://www.zenith.com/sub_prod/product_Display.asp?cat=&id=1046
>> and I bought me a Canopus ADVC 110 converter which will convert from
>> VHS tape or from camcorder tape to DVD.
>> http://www.canopus.com/products/ADVC110/index.php
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>> Now, suppose I borrow home movies from a friend to transfer to DVD.
>> Once I burn the DVD on my Zenith from their tape, is it "as digital as
>> it's going to get," and that's it? Can I just make myself a copy with
>> a DVD burner on my own Mac, and have the footage in as good a quality
>> as there is? Or do I have to run all the material directly onto hard
>> drive through the converter to have really good quality? What I'm
>> asking is
>> 1. Is there a difference in quality when the Zenith saves me several
>> steps in converting material direct to digital?
>> 2. Is there any generational loss if I make a DVD from another DVD,
>> since one is a copy but they're both digital?
>>
>> Thanks for any abilities to explain this in terms understandable to my
>> mind.
>>
>> Cori
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> I'm sure there are some 'audiophile' types who are able to tell the
> difference between a factory pressed DVD and a copy burned on a recordable
> disc.
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The reality in the digital domain is you don't make 'a copy' you simply
replicate the original. So if I make a 'copy' of a CD audio disc it is not
going to suffer any audio quality in the same sense as making a copy of a
copy of a copy of a tape in the analog domain. You can get accumulated
digital artefacts - I mention that before the pedants chime in - but these
are not common unless you are using crappy gear and crappy discs.

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