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While your wedding pictures will capture special moments, your wedding video will capture much more. From the words in your dads toast to your first dance, a wedding video captures the sights and sounds of your wedding day. And today, wedding videographers are using digital video, or DV, to record your wedding, lengthening the shelf life of your wedding video.

Still thinking about whether or not you should hire a videographer for your wedding? Here are some of the latest innovations in wedding videography:

The Digital Revolution

DV is pretty much the highest quality format that currently exists. One of it's many benefits is that you get super-high resolution on your wedding DVD, and the quality will stay no matter how many copies you burn. You can send discs to people who couldn't attend as well as to close family and friends along with your thank-you notes, and their versions will be just as good as the original copy.

Hot on DV's tail is shooting in high definition -- the same crystal-clear picture that's driving many to buy flat-screen televisions. With high-def wedding video (if your TV is HD-compatible) you'll see that the quality is incredibly sharp and amazingly clear.

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