Zak Mussig- “I think he’s just talking about DV, not HDV. They are very different formats that just happen to share a tape transport system.”
NO he spisificaly said Mini-DV
Jeff Carpenter- “All mini-DV is 720×480 at 29.97 frames per second. No exceptions.”
A Mini-DV tape is simply a data tape it can hold any data that one puts on it. It just happens that cameras record video data on them.
if you look up he deffinition if mini-dv on wikipedia it states
“Software is currently available for ordinary home computers which allows users to record any sort of computer data on MiniDV cassettes using common DV decks or camcorders. A 60-minute MiniDV tape will hold approximately 13 Gigabytes of data in this form of usage as the DV video format has a constant data rate of 3.6 Megabytes per second (3.6 MB/s