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Posted by David McCall on 10/05/54 11:38
"Ty Ford" <tyreeford@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:JISdnQIKnMLg4EbeRVn-uA@comcast.com...
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> I never said HDV was crap. I said it wasn't HD. When someone makes that
> mistake, here, or elsewhere, I will point it out. It's not rubbish, it's
> not
> ignorant and it's not groundless. It's technical specs.
>
So, Can we assume that any compressed High Resolution
format should never be considered to be High Definition?
OK, I'll buy that, but none of the manufacturers will, because
it is all compressed, unless you are sucking the raw data
onto a hard drive array. Isn't that correct.
Sony's high end offerings are not compressed very much,
but Panasonic's offerings DVCam-100HD and DVCam-50HD
ARE heavily compressed. Do any of these count? I'd have
to look it up, or you can, but I think you will find that there are
few formats that actually that actually meet or exceed the spec
for HD all of the way from the chips to the tape (or P2 card).
So, how much under spec, or how much compression, is allowed
to be actually referred to as an HD format. How about those DLP
and plasma displays are any of them actually capable of presenting
1080i at full resolution. I wouldn't be surprised if you can't find a
true HD display in the store.
Do you have any numbers to offer that would help us find that
elusive line between HD and everything else?
To me, they are all just digital formats of varying resolution and quality.
Sure, an HDV camera is far inferior to a Cinealta, but it is superior
to what you get on cable or sat TV that the marketing people call HD.
I agree that this sounds like the elitist crap that was going around
when DV first came out. It was considered unbroadcastable.
However, an awful lot of crap produced on 3/4" tape (another
consumer format :-) was suitable for airing. I'd say DV is superior
to 3/4" Umatic in almost every way, so how could they say that?
If people can get away with bumping DV to 35mm and calling it
film, I think this argument will be mute within the next year or so.
Crapy resolution or not, I always liked 1" type C.
David
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