Archive for June, 2007

Digital Video vs. Analog Video

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

So what are the benefits of digital video vs analog video?
Well I think the drive towards digital video is part of the overall technological improvement we have seen over the past 5 years or so.
Generally anything recorded digitally offers a great quality improvement over the old analogue methods. Digital recordings are more accurate in reproduction […]

Buying Digital Video Cameras

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

The choice in digital video cameras now is quite amazing.
You are not limited any more to just buying digital video cameras, nowadays you get a choice, as well as the ordinary camcorder, you can have a video phone, a still camera with video capability or an iPod to playback your videos on.
There are a number […]

How Digital Video Came About

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Digital video is a progression from the first origins of video recording.
Video tape recorders were first produced in 1951 and consisted of technology that could take in electric impulses and then transfer these on to magnetic tape.
The intervening years to 1956 saw the finalization of video tape recorders and their use for television purposes.
As the […]

Digital Video Basics

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Digital video provides a quality leap over the old analogue technology.
Digital video achieves this better quality by storing images and sound as numbers instead of waves.
An alternative explanation would be that the term digital simply refers to the use of binary numbers to evaluate input, store the input, and then transfer the output to a […]