Over the years the format has been mastered DV camcorder market. However, this has been new developments in audiovisual technology and today we know the new format called DVD format.

DVD format has become very popular due to various advantages that are not owned by any other format. With the DVD format is not only a data storage medium is very cheap, but also easy to make the edit, modify, and copy.

Today many companies have been using DVD technology in their products, such as Sony, Hitachi and Panasonic. They have created more than one mini DVD camcorder

The most fundamental difference between the mini DVD format and digital video is that the regular Mini DVD recording video and images to mini DVD discs, while others record to the DV tape. There are many advantages in this mini-DVD discs. The first is a DVD smaller and easier to store. They are also cheaper, more widely available and is more powerful medium for storing video.

Another advantage of the Mini DVD format is that the disc was recorded in any sequence, you can access any randomly from each section of the DVD disc. Formats such as DV tapes, there developed a mini DVD cameras, which allows a person to perform basic editing functions on the camera itself. Also one can simply take the new Mini DVD recording and playing in almost all DVD players.

There is one disadvantage with Mini DVD format. Video file is encoded in MPEG-2 format. And to be able to edit MPEG-2 format you need a special software.