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Enjoying pictures with high definition quality
Trying out the new HDV format!
Shooting in the HDV format
High image quality
The HDV format has about two times the horizontal resolution of a standard TV
resulting in about four times the amount of pixels providing high quality images.
Being HDV format compliant, your camcorder is ready to shoot crystal clear,
high-definition images.
What is the HDV format?
The HDV format is a new video format for shooting and playing back high definition
images on popular DV standard cassette tapes.
• Your camcorder adopts the HDV1080i
specification, which utilizes 1080
effective scanning lines, within the
HDV standards,
and records pictures at the
image bit rate of about 25 Mbps.
• These operating instructions refer to the HDV1080i format as HDV format unless there is a
need to specify.
1080 effective
scanning lines
Why shooting in the HDV format?
Moving to digital video, like the rest of the world, will enable you to capture
important moments in your life using the HDV format and the high quality images
will allow you to relive them.
Your camcorder’s down convert function converts pictures in HDV format to
pictures in SD (standard definition) quality for viewing on previous wide TV formats
and 4:3 aspect ratio TV when high definition TV sets are not available to provide an
easy path to HDV format video.
• The down convert function converts HDV format video to DV for playback or editing when
your camcorder is connected to a TV or VCR that is not HDV1080i specification compliant.
The image quality is then SD (standard definition).
