"Eric" <e.conrad@lycos.com> wrote in message

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> Everyone is telling me how great the Sony HC40 is on video quality.

> However, when I burn the movies onto a CD-R, the quality is poor at

> best. It's grainy and it looks like video taken in the 1950s. The

> HC40 is a 1.0Megapixel video camera. Is that about right for video

> quality? Are the great reviews I hear applying to the quality on a

> small screen on your desktop? Or are they referring to actual TV

> performance? Can anyone give me any tips on how to improve my video

> quality? Would buring it to a DVD-R be any better, or is it the

> camera that's off?

You are taking a high-quality 720x480 (if NTSC) image and writing it

to a low-quality medium... How does the camera image look to you

viewed directly on the TV? Of course the image will look better

properly written to DVD (with relatively low compression, 1-hour max

per disk), though not as good as the original...

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