Kent Fitzgerald
06-08-2007, 11:26 AM
How important is a DV output (aka Firewire, IEEE-1394 - all the same thing, right?) on a hard disk digital camcorder?
I'm shopping for a camcorder for an upcoming trip to my ancestral homeland of Switzerland, and I've narrowed the field to the JVC GZ-MG255 or 555 and the Panasonic SDR-H200. Sony is out, just because I can't get used to the touch-screen LCD.
The Panasonic seems to get the nod for it's optical image stabilization and 3 CCD sensor, but it lacks a DV output. The JVCs have DV out, and I like the idea of duplicating digitial-to-digital from the cam to my (Samsung) DVD recorder.
So my questions are:
Is there good reason why Panasonic doesn't have the DV out? seems like a conspicuous omission.
Will I get just-as-good results using the S-video connections on the Panasonic cam and DVDR (seems to me that digital-analog-digital would produce some degradation)?
Do USB to DV adapters exist? Do they work?
Any insights will be much appreciated!
Kent
I'm shopping for a camcorder for an upcoming trip to my ancestral homeland of Switzerland, and I've narrowed the field to the JVC GZ-MG255 or 555 and the Panasonic SDR-H200. Sony is out, just because I can't get used to the touch-screen LCD.
The Panasonic seems to get the nod for it's optical image stabilization and 3 CCD sensor, but it lacks a DV output. The JVCs have DV out, and I like the idea of duplicating digitial-to-digital from the cam to my (Samsung) DVD recorder.
So my questions are:
Is there good reason why Panasonic doesn't have the DV out? seems like a conspicuous omission.
Will I get just-as-good results using the S-video connections on the Panasonic cam and DVDR (seems to me that digital-analog-digital would produce some degradation)?
Do USB to DV adapters exist? Do they work?
Any insights will be much appreciated!
Kent