What is Digital Video?

The term digital video refers to any format that stores digital audio-visual information. So this could be a QuickTime movie or an AVI file, it could be on a DVD, zip disk, CD, mini DV tape or a streaming movie on the Internet.

As the audio-visual information is stored digitally, copies can be made without a loss in quality and it is much easier to edit and manipulate than with traditional processes.

If you own a digital video camera then you will be working with both digital video and DV.

The term DV does not mean the same as digital video. DV is an actual type of video format. Other types of video format include VHS and ...

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