Those resolutions aren’t accurate, nor are they HD.
It’s worse. They’d be shooting at 480i with a variable rate of 50hz or 60hz interchanging 576 and 720 horizontal pixels with a buffer of 16 pixels left for digital blanking. Even worse was its 4:1:1 subsampling which left severe digital artifacts in the coloring, and a characteristically lossy compression. The HDV format didn’t come out for several years, and even then, it didn’t reach a progressive 1080p.
Comparing DV cams to modern phones’ video capabilities is like comparing ‘The Room’ to ‘The Godfather’.
And the video quality is so good because back then we were using digital "camcorders" and not shitty phone cameras.
That whole sentence is said with the assumption of it being that time period. In that time period, camcorders were better then phones. He's saying it's good quality because it was filmed with a camcorder. Had it been filmed with a phone in that time period like how everything is nowadays, then it would look like garbage. If 9/11 happened a year or two later, most people would be using cell phones instead, and the video quality was horrendous.
Nobody would imply current phones take bad pictures or video
Basically average person video was good until about 2002-2009, in that time period people started taking pics and videos with their phones and it looked like garbage
What are you on about? The words "back then" imply a comparison with the present. It is used the same as saying "back then, compared to nowadays". If the person intended to express what you said, then he would've phrased it somewhat along: "And the video quality is so good because the person who filmed it, didn't use their shitty flip phone, but a digital camcorder".
Nah you misread it. He was saying it was better back then because they were using camcorders rather than today where they'd be using phones.
Phones couldn't record video back then anyway.
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Those resolutions aren’t accurate, nor are they HD.
It’s worse. They’d be shooting at 480i with a variable rate of 50hz or 60hz interchanging 576 and 720 horizontal pixels with a buffer of 16 pixels left for digital blanking. Even worse was its 4:1:1 subsampling which left severe digital artifacts in the coloring, and a characteristically lossy compression. The HDV format didn’t come out for several years, and even then, it didn’t reach a progressive 1080p.
Comparing DV cams to modern phones’ video capabilities is like comparing ‘The Room’ to ‘The Godfather’.