Will HDV create a commercial quality SD DVD?

This is a question for HDV users:
I'm thinking of going HDV, but wanted to make sure of one thing:
Will an SD DVD from a HDV camcorder have the approximate quality of a commercial purchased DVD movie, resolution/sharpness-wize?
If not, do you know exactly why?
If so, could you describe your basic workflow (capture presets, encode presets). Thanks!

Will an SD DVD from a HDV camcorder have the approximate quality of a commercial purchased DVD movie, resolution/sharpness-wize?
Oh, he11 no! If this was a serious question, it's time for a reality check.
Why not? An HDV camera cannot produce anywhere near the quality of those used in commercial films. Most still shoot on film, which all by itself would blow away the quality of any dinky HDV camcorder. Next, the lenses they use probably cost more than your car ... due to their quality. No HDV camcorder can even come close.
They go to extremes getting the lighting just right for every scene shot ... a good DP and LD are worth their weight in gold. Not to mention the skills of the rest of the crew.
Then they edit in pro, non-compressed (or only slightly compressed) formats, not highly compressed formats like HDV. They're color graded by specialists that make a good living at what they do. And then their compressed by highly talented compressionist, working scene-by-scene to get the perfect compression rate for each and every scene. And last, but certainly not least, the DVDs a replicated (not burned) from a glass master.
You're trying to compare apples to dead fruit flies. HDV is the very low-end of HD ... designed for and used by consumers camcorders and a few prosumer camcorders.
Now with all that said, with good lighting and good camera skills, you can get surprisingly good images from many HDV camcorders. But you should keep your expectations realistic.
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