Originally posted by: SilverWook
Okay, so the bugaboo is that DV is lousy at analog signal capture?

Well, it's not terrible, but you're not capturing the full colour values for each pixel. That's all. For doing all sorts of editing, etc., it's nice to have as much info to start with before "downgrading" to 4:2:0 for the DVD. DV is still pretty much the nicest consumer camcorder video format we've seen so far (HDV excepted...), so don't panic about all this esoteric, picky technical mumbo-jumbo.