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Posted by Ty Ford on 06/12/06 13:55
On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:26:08 -0400, Spex wrote
(in article <448c27ff$0$69373$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>):
> Ty Ford wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was on a shoot last week that was supposed to be an HD shoot on a
>> Varicam.
>> The camera itself was not as tall as I remembered other Varicams. It had
>> "DVCPro HD" printed on one side and 720P on the other. The Varicam logo
>> looked askew as if it had fallen off and had been reglued.
>>
>> So looking it up on the net shows me a 1280x720 camera. The 720 I'm
>> familiar
>> with is 720x480. What is it about this variacam that would make them put
>> 720
>> on the camera rather than 1280?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ty (confused in Baltimore) Ford
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Ty Ford's equipment reviews, audio samples, rates and other audiocentric
>> stuff are at www.tyford.com
>>
> Don't know where you get that frame size from???
>
> DVCPro HD is 960x720p or 1280x1080(i or p) or 1440x1080 (i or p).
>
> 960x(720)<------ this is the 720p the badge on the camera is referring to.
>
> I have never thought 960x720 was really HD. Do you?
No, but what do I know. I thought SD was everything through 720 and HD
started with 1080 and went up.
The pity is that after multi-stream broadcasting, HD really isn't HD any more
due to compression. Even with only one HD stream, according to a TV CE here
in Baltimore, the compression on O-T-A broadcast is something like 40:1.
The last amazing O-T-A HD I saw was NBC's coverage of the Utah Winter
Olympics.
Regards,
Ty Ford
Regards,
Ty Ford
-- Ty Ford's equipment reviews, audio samples, rates and other audiocentric
stuff are at www.tyford.com
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