DV is currently the most common consumer Standard Definition video codec. It has many uses, everything from home videos to weddings to some hollywood movies. I will however, in this short post, not be discussing it's pros and cons, but rather the stupidity of it's name.
DV basically stands for 'Digital Video'. DV is video and it is digital. Digital video however is not DV. Therefore although DV stands for Digital Video, it does not in fact mean Digital Video. You frequently get people confused by this and also mixing it up with DVD. They aren't similar in the slightest. The High Definition version of DV is known as HDV which is possibly an even stupider name. Couldn't the companies behind DV have given it a decent name in the first place?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
There are quite a few discrepancies between the anagrams used to label such things. Especially when they can mean multiple things, for instance DVD can be understood to mean both Digital Versatile Disc and Digital Video Disc. Also compared with the similar but different DV and HDV, standing for Digital Video and High Definition Video, I believe some standardization is needed.
Post a Comment