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Sigh....
It would take 3 men and a team of horses to get me to spend $$ on Sony stuff these days....Dr. Mordrid
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I am trying to imagine the configuration of the three men and horses that could persuade this to occur Doc!Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
Great quote!
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I agree. Sony are so obsessed with trying to bend standards - and losing compatibility with anything non-Sony - that I wouldn't consider buying anything Sony. I have only one piece of Sony equipment, my DVCAM drive, which I adore. Although DVCAM is an example of Sony bending the DV25 standard, at least it remained ± compatible with the DV standard and is therefore usable. I've recorded DVCAM from computer generated imaging and, quite frankly, I cannot see any improvement over straight DV25. It is just a Sony hot air attempt to bugger around with a perfectly adequate standard.Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
For those who don't know DVCAM, the only difference between it and DV is that the helical recording track on the tape is slightly wider, meaning that a 1 h DV tape lasts only 45 minutes. The encoding is identical. The Sony claim is fewer tape drop-outs and a better s/n ratio, but as I never see dropouts in DV and the s/n ratio with digital recording is irrelevent anyway, it is just hot air designed to apply higher profit margins to DVCAM equipment. The real problem is that whereas DV>DVCAM is compatible, the reverse is not true, so the moment you go for, say, a DVCAM camera, you are stuck with using DVCAM hardware along the line. And guess which company is the only, the unique, maker of DVCAM hardware?Brian (the devil incarnate)
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Brian,
I agree with your sentiments regarding the proprietary nature of Sony's DVCam format.
But there is one other difference between DVCam and MiniDV... locked audio.
The DVCam format utilizes locked audio while the consumer MiniDV format does not.
But as far as the image is concerned, they are identical.
Jerry Jones
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