New consumer JVC HD Camera

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The camera claims to be full high definition 1920x1080 and 3CCD. If the camera lives up to its claims of full high definition then I expect it to have full progressive 1080p at 24 or 30 frames per second.
 
Unfortunately progressive scanning capability seems to be reserved for professional grade high definition camcorders. Maybe Panasonic can step up to the plate and offer a multi-format consumer camcorder that shoots 720p60 and or 1080p24, and 1080i. One alternative for consumers is to buy a hybrid digital still AVCHD camcorder. These hybrid cameras always support high definition progressive scanning for their video modes. However some of these hybrid cameras may only offer 15 frames per second. The better ones will offer 720p60 and 1080p30 because the compression chips are already available.
 
In the meantime if JVC offered a cineframe mode like 24f or 30f that would not look to bad because the resolution would be 1920x540p and would be line doubled to scale up to 1920x1080f. Of course this could also be done in psot by discarding one of the fields.
 
If JVC offered a consumer camera that could shoot 720p at 60 frames per second that would make a wonderful consumer camera and it would be a far better format than 1080i. However the camera would be slammed by the critics as not being real high definition and the camera would lose marketshare. So JVC rather than giving us the best high definition which is 720p gives us the best selling high definition which is 1080i.
 
I dont think it would be better than 1080i. I am all about a nice high resolution with a very aethestic frame rate. If it was 1080p60 I would be going nuts. But I wouldnt wanna wanna loose that resolution for a progressive frame rate and I dont think consumers are ready to move up to 720p60
 
If you are into high spatial resolution then shoot 1080p30 however no doubt if you start complaining about stroboscopic artifacts you may want to cut the resolution and go for 720p60 for super fluid motion for the fast action sports. But you can't have your cake and eat it too. !080i promises to give you the high spatial resolution of 1080p with the super fluid motion of 720p60 but when it delivers it is a compromise between the 2 formats. What 1080i delivers is high numbers that take up more space but it does nothing to improve picture quality except to make picture quality worse which is the price you pay for this so called real high definition. 1080p60 will never be the solution to real high definition because 1500p30 will blow it away. So what it boils down to is tradeoffs. Trading off temporal resolution for spatial resolution and vise versa. But the consumer who wants something for nothing will always choose the interlace formats. And such a consumer will always be satisfied because as long as the picture quality is better than what he had before he will not complain. But settling for the silver does not mean that you get the gold.
 
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