Sony Digital Camcorder

Compare quality on digital 8 sony camcorder and sony hard drive type camcorder?

Jun 27, 2009 by ang | Posted in Camcorders

I currently have a sony digital 8 type camcorder, as well as canon sd400 camera which can take video. I like the idea and size of the current hard dirve camcorders, but quality of video is of utmost importance to me. How does the quality of video compare

since all digital video is compressed, the most accurate figure of merit for quality is the data rate, expressed in megabits per second. Your digital 8 camera has a data rate of 25 mbps, the canon sd400 in its best mode is 11 mbps. There are other differences,

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