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[Ryan] “There is a reason that those cameras cost that much more.”

And that reason is because of history and tradition.
Broadcast quality cameras have been a niche product section for a long time and that’s what these 2/3″ cameras are based on; older broadcast cameras.
Low volumes mean high cost per unit.

I can’t see why there would be some kind of law of nature and that couldn’t change.
IT-sectors development is also pushing camera’s ahead.

Nobody seems to wonder why you can do post production today with $5k set, which would have cost couple of years ago $50k and decade ago $500k.
Why this advancement wouldn’t touch the acquisition side of industry?

Camera manufacturers just have to eat their own markets, because sooner or later somebody will do that.
And I think hvx-200 is the first step to this direction.

Targetting modern high quality videocameras to mass market will eventually explode the markets and after that you can have same quality with fraction of a price used to be. It’s all about volume.

And after all, what’s so high end in 720p 8-bit color quite compressed video?

Next step forward would be cheap 1/2″ 1-chipper with changeable lens.
After that cheap 2/3″ and so on…
And more color depth for me, please!

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If there hasn’t been any revolutionary in ccd sensivity, 2/3″ chips still have four times the area and hence 2 stops more sensivity.

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Well, you can get close (or even) to low quality hd with high quality sd and high quality up-rez.
Realtime up-rez is never a best option. Fractal plug-ins and lots of time and horsepower gives much better results.

Question was not can I produce Dalsa equivalent material with miniDV, but can HQ-sd beat LQ-hd (like hdv).

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Why 16bit, if you export 8 bit tiffs from FCP?

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[Barry Green] “c) even if the European version turns out to be 1440 instead of 1280, you’ll have fewer overall frames (which would be where the tradeoff comes in; more pixels in fewer frames vs. more frames with fewer pixels.) It’s not “better”, it’s different.”

So we’ll have 24p with 1280 pixels per row and 25p with 1440.
Now which one has more frames _and_ pixels?
And, yes, more compression with same constant datarate…

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Anything with 16:9 AR?
I’d feel a bit funny to spend top dollars to a brand new hd monitor that has 4:3 AR…

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They had to make mac mini(ntel) to playback qt7-avc-hd…

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Sony also heard a request about “global” model and fulfilled that.
I still hope that Panny will do the same…

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What kind of pull-down 25fps could have?
25fps is 25fps.

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[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “you are talking about the Varicam camera”

Or something new…
While you are there, could you ask if there might be any interest to design a digital cinema cam with 1″ 1-ccd cmos chip that could use super16 lenses? Some competition with Kinetta perhaps?