Most "low quality DV" videos are low light videos. That's the real problem. ;)

Seun, I think you're absolutely right, and agree with you 100%.

However -- do you realize you're replying to a thread that's more than three years old? Wow!

And I was the original poster and I'm still reading this thread, thanks to e-mail notification. I don't think I've been on this forum for many years. It's like I've been asleep for a few years and just woke up. Even my orginal video clip is still on my website!

Was back to Panasonic and they claimed the quality is a good as it gets for this level of camera. So I just decided to use the camera. And regarding low light quality, the Panasonic DV852 is pretty good. So I have to be thankful for that.

Now I guess everyone has moved on to HD video? Wondering if that solves the problem?

With email notification a thread can live longer than the poster.

Just thought I would add a little something to an interesting thread.

I use to work for a duplication house and we would produce 500 VHSs off a Digitalbeta Deck and the VHS quality was awesome. I was amazed at how good the duplications came out.

I never compared the DigitalBeta Master to the VHS directly, but nevertheless the VHSs looked great.