[X4U] Re: Ambitious DVD Project.

[Nick Scalise]

On May 18, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Craig A. Finseth wrote:

>> DO NOT have them transferred to DVD. Have them transferred to DV
>> tape. Then import it yourself from a DV camera.
>
> Most consumer DV cameras use "mini-DV", which is itself heavily
> compressed.  Going directly to DVD will probably result in much _less_
> compression.

While I do agree that the MiniDV format is a compressed format, I 
disagree that it is inferior to DVD.

MiniDV is ~215MB/per minute --:> 120 minutes x 215 is 25.8 Gigabytes.

A 120 minuted DVD is 4.3 Gigabytes.

Please explain to me how MiniDV is compressed more than DVD.
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Nick Scalise
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