":Jerry:" wrote in message
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No, it won't go down a generation, that old chestnut was due to copying to
another analogue recording (the generation was the analogue recording
process), so as long as a decent analogue capture card or analogue to
digital converter is used the quality should not suffer - it will stay at
the same quality as the play-out.

There is, though, the caveat that there may be some loss due to lossy codec
compression. For example, a good-quality analogue master sent down S Video
can suffer noticeably from being compressed to DV en route from card to HDD.

Another forum I am on seems to live by the "DV is god among codecs" mantra.
It's really infuriating to see DV's use recommended as a means to sidestep
encoding problems instead of actually identifying and fixing the problem and
avoiding the quality drop.