On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 19:30:05 -0000, Zsolt wrote:

>I was only
>asking to see whether I must change my TV to be able to see the quality of
>a
>DV/D8 camcorder compared to my old Canon Video8. I am somewhat happy that
>it
>is not absolutely necessary.

Not absolutely necessary, but you may want to try hooking
up your camcorder to a TV equipped with both input types
(these are generally switchable) and looking at the results.
I would be surprised if you could not see the difference...

>BTW Sony keeps saying that D8 brings the same image quality as DV. Is that
>not true?

The recording system is of equal quality (has the same
potential) but the camera "front end", at least of the
early D8s, was based on the generally lower-quality
Hi-8 camcorders (not that some Hi-8s, like the Sony
TR-700, VX-3, and others cannot be really good, but
late Sony Hi-8s tended to be somewhat less good...).