Mini DV to Digital Conversion

  What Is MiniDV? Do you have memories of old home videos from the late 1990s to the early 2000s? If so, you most likely have MiniDV cassette tapes stored away in a closet or the attic. The DV (Digital Video) format came about in the mid-1990s to replace the larger, bulkier camcorders and VHS tapes used in your VCR. Sony and Panasonic wanted to answer the request of video enthusiasts for a smaller, more mobile-friendly platform. If you remember sitting next to the TV in a tangle of RCA wires trying to rewind and fast forward on tiny playback buttons, you probably had a MiniDV camcorder. With the technology to compress images, manufacturers could introduce significantly smaller video capture devices and tapes to the market. The video quality of MiniDV was also a bit better than VHS. A smaller form factor paired with better resolution essentially rendered the VHS format obsolete. However, when digital video was introduced to the world, the use of MiniDV started to quickly decline and onl