"Darren Harris" <Searcher7@mail.con2.com>

wrote in message news:9437a27c.0311071622.67213048@posting.google.com...

> So basically, my analog video camera can never produce as much display

> information as a digital video camera,

Not necessarily. The very best analogue cameras can produce a fine

picture with high resolution - but the low-end analogue capture cards

I think you mentioned may be limited to 704 pixels H rather than the

720 of FireWire cards. And many DV cameras have fairly low

resolution...

>and the highest resolution

> digital video camera one can get still cannot take full advantage of

> what a 1900 x 1200 computer monitor is capable of, correct?

Yes, at least for Mini-DV and similar - the resolution is limited to

720x480 by the medium specifications (though it is generally lower

in terms of actual picture TV-resolution).

> How do the answers change when considering a different kind of

> display.(ie: TV monitor).

Many cannot display even the 540 TV-lines of the best Mini-DV.

A TV is less sharp than a computer monitor, but it is set up to

properly display interlaced TV; computer monitors can display

the full resolution of the captured video, but generally cannot

display the interlacing properly, giving poor motion-video unless

the interlacing is compensated-for...

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