MOD and TOD

In January 2007 JVC announced its first high definition tapeless consumer camcorder, the Everio GZ-HD7, which recorded 1080i MPEG-2 video to either a built-in hard disk drive or an SD memory card.

[1] Panasonic has never released a consumer high definition camcorder that used TOD recording format.

[3] Despite the file structure being unique to this video recording format, the location for still images follows the standard agreed upon by many still camera manufacturers.

[5] Software that is shipped with camcorders is capable of processing the aspect ratio information correctly, aided perhaps by the metadata stored in MOI files.

This video can be easily authored for watching on a DVD player without recompression, because it is fully compliant with DVD-video standard.

Media files must be packaged into distribution formats like HD DVD or Blu-ray Disc, using authoring software.

While many camcorders that produce the MOD and TOD formats also include Windows and/or Mac conversion software to run on your computer, there are other tools available for free to do the same work.