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>I'm a bit confused as to how the press release claim that with a Sony DV
>camcorder, artifacts such as bleeding are all gone.
>
>When video is gathered and then ultimately edited on computer and then sent
>to a vhs tape, won't the "ARTIFACTS" return when it goes back to an analog
>format?
>
>Also, when sending a composite source to a digital camera's composite input,
>aren't you recording onto DV the artifacts that already exist on the
>composite source?
>How does one maintain the digital integrity all the way through creation of
>a VHS tape?

If you start with a recording made on digital tape, edit,
and master back to tape in the same format, using a DV
codec (assuming it is a good one, or that no changes are
made during editing that require rendering), the image
quality can be very high (though short of "perfect"). If
you then decide to start with, or end with (or both) an
inferior medium (such as VHS), you will have the faults
of that medium added... (and no one said you wouldn't ;-).
Try shooting a bit of Mini-DV footage with a good 3-chip
camcorder sometime, then look at the results played through
an "S" cable back to a good TV if you want to see how good
mini-cameras can be...! ;-)