" Once you start editing, the whole thing grabs you, (it did me) you want to produce the best you can, and you could end up wishing you'd gone for mini dv to start with. "

SPOT ON !

The only good thing about dvd cams is that you can watch the disc in a dvd player - but who really wants to watch all that unedited footage?

DVD cameras have a much lower bit rate, and this directly effects picture quality, dvd compression gives a noticably softer image - 6mbit/s versus 24 mbit/s for DV.

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