On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 17:14:18 -0600, Ki Suk Hahn wrote:

>I have a Vaio PC with built-in DV connections. Because I didn't have to put it
>together (buy a DV card, etc) I don't know what options I have with respect to
>controlling the "quality" of the DV-to-PC capture. I use the DV Gate (?)
>software to capture to disk. I would like to know if the resolution of the
>capture is limited by the tape (good) or the PC hardware/software (bad).
>
>If the latter, can you provide details? Can I buy other software to use with
>the existing DV card to get better performance?

It is a digital signal, and it is essentially unchanged
in the transfer from digital tape storage to digital
hard-drive storage. During editing, though, the quality
of the changed parts (transitions, effects, filters)
of the video depends on the quality of the DV-codec
used during the processing of the changes.