Just sharing the results of changing the Settings in Steve's little Sony hd camcorder,the settings were on standard and everything was quite "woolly" even when viewed in the LCD screen, The camera is now set to High Quality and while it is still only VHS quality when viewed on a TV it is a lot better than when it was on the other setting!
This camera shoots in mpg format which is a compressed format. When any editing is done it is compressed even further. Digital video on tape is a large .avi file and is sharp, movement is smooth and the only thing better is hi-def. When digital video is edited and exported to DVD (which is the accepted format for sharing) it is converted to a compressed format - mpg and quality is lost.
The cameras are improving all the time but the better quality is lost once it is put onto DVD. By the time we can all afford blueray burners and players the shooting quality will once more be higher and the same annoyance will be there!
AJ
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