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Posted by Spex on 06/12/06 20:08
Frank wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:31:37 +0100, in 'rec.video.production',
> in article <Re: Varicam or Not Varicam?>,
> Spex <No.spam@ta.com> wrote:
>
>> Ty Ford wrote:
>>> 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.
>> If only that was the case. 480p (720x480) is also bizarrely considered a
>> HD resolution!
>
>
> I've never heard people who know better refer to 480p as HDTV (High
> Definition Television). I have heard people refer to 480p as EDTV
> (Enhanced Definition Television), however.
>
I was being facetious, 480p is however a ratified HDTV resolution. EDTV
is a latter day sales invented term that acknowledges the fact that 480p
never should have ended up in the HD specs in the first place. Its not
coincidental that Plasma TVs couldn't be manufactured (affordable) at
greater than 480p at the time.
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