How likely is the XDCAM EX to impact the HVX?

[Tzedekh]

Exactly correct, yes a global shutter would solve it. No low-cost product is yet using a global shutter though. I think if it's gonna use CMOS, we can probably look to their existing CMOS lineup for clues, and the V1U uses rolling rather than global.

At a purported $8,000, I would hope the EX is a little beyond prosumer and many of the compromises that HD at low prices entails. The Canon HV20 costs only a grand, and the V1U about half the expected price of the EX. It's nearest competition -- the HVX200 and XLH1 -- don't suffer from wobble, and the very people who might otherwise buy the EX would probably pass if there were a wobble. I hope that means Sony is smart enough to use global-shutter CMOS chips or else CCDs.

 

[Barry_Green]

So do I. If it's a rolling-shutter CMOS then I lose all interest.