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Posted by Frank on 11/05/07 10:55
On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:43:01 GMT, in 'rec.video.desktop',
in article <Re: Canon HV-20 wins 2007 award as "Best HDV Camcorder">,
"My Name Is Nobody" <nobody@msn.com> wrote:
>Yes, Right on the side of the Canon HV20 camera a sticker says "1920 x 1080
>HD CMOS", on a sticker that was attached to the camera when new it says
>"Bring true 1920x1080 HD to life Canon HV20" and all over in the HDV
>camcorder Instruction Manual:
>Numerous times Under Menu Options Lists pages 35 & 36, and other places...
>
>On Canons own web site:
>http://www.usa.canon.com/templatedata/pressrelease/20070131_hv20.html
>
>Canon's True HD CMOS Image Sensor (1920 x 1080)
>Designed, developed, and manufactured by Canon for the EOS line of digital
>SLR cameras popular with professional photographers and advanced amateurs
>alike, Canon has created a 2.96 megapixel CMOS image sensor for the HV20 HD
>Camcorder. The 1/2.7" CMOS image sensor acquires image information at 1920 x
>1080, reproducing life-like HD movies and photos.
There's no false advertising taking place here. The Canon HV20 uses a
1920 by 1080 imaging sensor. It's as simple as that.
Because it's a 1080i HDV-format camcorder, it writes anamorphically
squeezed 1440 by 1080 frames to tape, as do *all* 1080i HDV format
camcorders. That's how 1080i HDV works. Period. No exceptions.
>I've actually placed a phone call to Canon and spoke with some "so called"
>technical support person there, in what I thought was great detail about
>this. I asked what software I was supposed to use that could work with this
>"true 1920x1080 HD" video and not reduce it's quality. The consensus at the
>end of the lengthy phone call was that wow, it was too bad that no one was
>making a software that was capable of handling the video from my new Canon
>camera without reducing the quality of the original video...
Tech support people tend to know what it says on the computer screen
in front of them. If they had any intellect, they wouldn't be doing
the job that they do. It's slightly better than being unemployed and
it's certainly better than flipping burgers.
Just for the record, I've been unemployed, but I don't cook. :)
--
Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
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Read Frank's thoughts on HDV at http://www.humanvalues.net/hdv/
(also covers AVCHD and XDCAM EX).
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