<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 18, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Nick Scalise wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Lucida Grande">Please explain to me how MiniDV is compressed more than DVD.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>One can find some words on the subject of DV and other tape formats at </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.transferwest.com/dv.htm">http://www.transferwest.com/dv.htm</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>What should be noted is that DVD's as far as I know have no 'native' format; the extent of the compression (and the information lost) depends on the input to the burner: MPEG-2 vs MPEG-4 vs...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Frank Isackson</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>