ABSTRACT
This introduction to DV technology will describe some of the fundamental common features of all of the formats that make up digital video, as well as some of the distinguishing features among them. Chapter 1 covered the fundamental sound differences, and to delve deeper we will have to venture into the picture side of the equation because the distinguishing features among the formats are often related to the picture. Although there are some distinguishing sound differences among the formats, one would have to say that they are smaller than the range of picture qualities. Thus, a practical-sized sound book can cover a lot more formats than could a specifically detailed picture-related book, and learning about just a few distinguishing issues for sound formats allows one to cover the whole field. Today there are also camcorders available that record directly to DVD types of writable discs, to RAM cards, and to hard discs. These all share the same basic ideas as the tape-based media and have the same audio trade-offs involved, so they will not be covered separately.
