<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Please explain to me how MiniDV is compressed more than DVD.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>It's not. It's compressed far less. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It's also a bit of apples and oranges. DVD is not a recording format, DV & miniDV are.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>DV is, I forget my terminology here forgive me, compressed frame-by-frame, while DVD is compressed over time.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Mpeg (DVD) will compress different shots differently. A 10 minute still shot of a vase of flowers will take far less data than the opening 10 minutes of Private Ryan. And often the flower vase shot will look dramatically better.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>DV & miniDV will take the same amount of data for either shot, it will still record 30 frames a second for the duration of the shot. As it will for the battle scene. It's a flat rate compression, as opposed to DVD which is variable. Which means there are no motion artifacts or pixelization due to too much data in each frame. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>At least as far as I've seen. I've mostly worked with DV, not miniDV. But every time I've seen miniDV it just appears to be lower resolution – no artifacts ala DVD.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Ben</DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>