On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 16:58:28 -0500, "JD" wrote:

>DV is probably the first consumer format that looks pretty good on bandwidth
>limited broadcast TV at the first generation of encode/decode. Even though DV
>really does have significant loss, there is a short-cut (almost akin to the
>old analog DUB connectors) that allows bypassing of additional encode/decode
>losses. The Firewire can certainly help in literal copies, but if there is any
>significant processing involved, then the spectre of DV encode/decode cycles
>appears to make things look worse again.

Depends on the codec quality... Check out:
http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/original_vs_10th-gen.htm
for frame-grabs before and after 10 generations of forced
rendering with the Raptor codec. The changes are evident,
but subtle - I can sure live with these compared with
10-generation analogue degeneration...! ;-)