Hpx500 dsp

[DanHD]

What is the difference or differences between the DSP on the 500 and the one on the original 200? Does the 500 capture an even higher bit depth to later reduce to 8 bit or are they the same?

And also, although the Varicam records in DVCPRO HD 8 bit, does it's DSP work with higher bit depths than the 500?

I mean, of course the highlights and tonal range is miles better on the varicam than it is on the HVX/HPX/200a...yet they all end in 8 bit..

 

[DanHD]

anddddd

no one cares to answer?

 

[Noel Evans]

HPX500 features a high-performance digital signal processor (DSP) with 14-bit A/D conversion and 19-bit processing that handles HD/SD format conversion simultaneously

 

[DanHD]

how does that contrast to the HVX

 

[Noel Evans]

newly developed 14-bit digital signal processor (DSP)

FWIW, I didnt readily know these numbers - I googled them.

 

[DanHD]

hmm. The HPX probably samples the lumanance/color at a higher starting bit rate then, then downconverts it to 8-bit.