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If you want to watch a spontaneous sharp picture and hear the crystal clear sound you will have to go for DV player which meets all such purpose of yours. Just a few years ago was handy cam known as mini DV cameras that captured live pictures in a DV camera and played it on the spot for all as an efficient DV handy cam. Its on the spot playing the recorded pictures baptized it the name mini DV player as well.

DV actually stands for digital video format recorded in a small DV cassette. Few companies who exercise their monopoly worldwide in manufacturing electronic equipments had spread their wings in manufacturing mini DV cameras in 1995. Such mini DV cameras worked as mini DV players as well, without requiring a complex cabling and arranging a connectivity between mini DV camera and a monitor or screen, displaying the picture.

Equipped with automatic and manual modes the handy cam mini DV cameras offered editing, sound recording and playing which qualified the mini DV handy cam as mini DV player as well. Its folding tiny LCD qualified the DV cameras as mini DV players as well which encouraged the professional media persons and TV reporters to make their coverage and send the footage of live pictures to the news channels with in no time.

The mini DV player has codec and tape format which maintains the quality of its picture and sound. Besides, all  the pictures recorded in DV cassette do not get spoiled even after several years of time, presenting spontaneous and intrinsic picture when played on any DV player.

A few salient features of mini DV cameras include intra frame compression promoting easy editing and good video quality in comparison with Video8, Hi8 and VHS-C, crucial features of analog cameras.  Cassettes known as mini DV tapes record a high-definition format called HDV in mini DV cameras and display live picture through mini DV players uninterruptedly.

The mini DV players happen to be embedded with a memory chip known as MIC while a cassette used in all types of mini DV players possesses sixty to ninety minutes of  storage capacity of videos.  Almost all the DV players, editors and encoders are supported by raw DV data stream of DV cassette. Only on being packed into AVI container files do the pictures become a high definition video quality lasting for long.