The advent of miniDV was a watershed in the evolution of the camcorder. No longer was the enthusiast bound by complicated hardware capture devices, slow software, complex editing tools – and all costing a fortune. In fact in my experience, more people were put off the idea than intrigued by it or embraced it.

MiniDV needed a simple Firewire ports and cable, and as data alone was being moved and not, for lack of a better term, imagery, it was pretty foolproof.

To my mind, the next Big Thing strangely I believe was 9/11. Why? Simply as no longer was there such a thing as ‘broadcast quality’. For goodness sake, TV news programs were showing footage from webcams on tanks in Iraq!

I am of the belief that the introduction of DVD, HDD and SD as storage along with the evolution of the AVCHD format were stepping stones, not major developments. Even to a degree, 3D fits in that mould in that it is not a revolution across the board and is only suitable/relevant in certain circumstances.

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