On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:41:08 -0700, James Gifford <jgifford@surewest.net> wrote:

>Neuman - Ruether wrote:

>> OK, I was curious enough to check the VX2000 just

>> now, and (at least in terms of what is seen in

>> the VF, which *could* be different on tape, with

>> "correction" seen in the finder - but I'm not

>> interested enough in this right now to check...;-),

>> the VX2000 appears to just crop the 4:3 image

>> to 16:9, throwing away part of the CCD info.

>What is the final resolution of the 16x9 frames?

The active-image part (not counting the black

bars, with some end area also likely outside

the TV-viewing area) with 16:9 works out to

be 720x405 pixels (NTSC) with cropping, and

720x480 (stretched sideways) if anamorphic.

If there are enough pixels available in the

CCD to reproportion, then I guess one could

have about 853x480 - but if you go HDTV,

the pixel-count becomes greater, and 16:9

makes more sense with the relatively larger

sharp display possible. For SD, I would

stick with 4:3 for best results...