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Video technology has come a long way in the last few decades. Let's  spend some time checking out a prosumer Canon MiniDV camcorder -- is it  still usable today?

If you're interested in more retro video technology content, these two channels are worth checking out:
video99.co.uk, https://www.youtube.com/c/video99couk
Cathode Ray Dude, https://www.youtube.com/c/CathodeRayDude  

Sources:
Popular Mechanics, November 2002.
Maximum PC, August 2004. 

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Canon GL2 -- The $3,000 MiniDV Camcorder from 2003!

Video technology has come a long way in the last few decades. Let's spend some time checking out a prosumer Canon MiniDV camcorder -- is it still usable today? If you're interested in more retro video technology content, these two channels are worth checking out: video99.co.uk, https://www.youtube.com/c/video99couk Cathode Ray Dude, https://www.youtube.com/c/CathodeRayDude Sources: Popular Mechanics, November 2002. Maximum PC, August 2004. ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Please consider supporting my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisdoesnotcompute Follow me on Twitter and Instagram! @thisdoesnotcomp ----------------------------------------­------------------------------------- Music by Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com). Intro music by BoxCat Games (http://www.box-cat.com).

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Asaf Sagi

Oh, and regarding DV being immune to quality degradation and noise - that's not entirely true. Sure, it's not the same noise as you get on VHS tapes. But still, data could get corrupted on tape. This was a common occurrence. You could have green/magenta squares, static lines and audio drops, to name a few. Here are some examples: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/La00ogDjgJw/hqdefault.jpg https://av-workshop.com/blog--/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/digital-pixelization-2.jpg https://forum.videohelp.com/images/guides/p1996477/tape%203%20-%20still%20001.jpg https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3622/3385627315_0029665fca_m.jpg

Anonymous

The PVM made an appearance!

thisdoesnotcompute

Yeah, I think I could have explained my thoughts in that part better. With analog tape, you can have a wide variety of problems, but a lot of them are not overly jarring or otherwise ruin the footage. With DV (or any other digital format), errors are usually *very* obvious, like in the examples you provided, and I don't think they generate much of a sense of nostalgia like the occasional mistracking of a VHS tape can.