On Fri, 24 May 2002 18:56:38 +1200, Brian wrote:

>It depends on what equipment you will be playing the tape back on.
>If your planning on playing the tape back on your own recorder then
>record in 16 bit sound as the sound will be of higher quality.
>Record in 12bit if you might want to playback the tape on other DV
>video eqipment that might not have 16bit sound playback.

ALL DV gear has 16-bit playback, and only the Sony VX1000
could not record in it, as I recall... Why Sony gear
comes new with the menu setting for 12-bit selected is
a mystery...