Introduction
HD is upon us. In the blink of an eye everything has changed. Now there are affordable HD cameras and decks with the promise of many more to come.
It’s 1996 all over again – that’s when DV arrived. Now we have HDV, a entry-level format which uses a highly compressed HD signal to create the DV equivalent of the HD world.
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And it doesn’t stop there. Beyond HDV is DVCPro HD and beyond that is top-of-the-range HDCam.
The world mimics itself over and over, again and again, creating format after format, catering to every budget with a miriad of possible shooting possibilities.
Standard def. will be phased out, just like ...
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