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Old January 7th, 2009, 01:14 PM   #15
Alister Chapman
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There's some interesting details in the Sony guide. Things like the fact that 35Mb XDCAM HD is only compressed 16:1 while 50Mb XDCAM HD 4:2:2 is compressed much more at 20:1, yet the pictures from the 16:1 compressed cameras are nowhere near as good as the ones from the 20:1 cameras and it's not just because of the colour space.

I note that they put XDCAM HD 4:2:0 above XDCAM EX on the production pyramid, yet most owners and users will tell you that the quality from the EX is quite a bit better than from the current crop of XDCAM HD camcorders.
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