On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:50:58 GMT, "N Hamilton" wrote:

>Well there is something wrong here! I'm taping a tall, lanky cello player
>and he looks different on the DV screen, the computer and the TV! Now I'm so
>confused with square pixels, aspect ratios, etc that I don't know which
>image is true.
>
>The Sony vidcam LCD screen is width/height ratio of 1.43. The computer
>window ratio in Premiere is 1.6 (using res of 720:480) and the TV is 1.33.
>The cello player looks normal on the Sony LCD, fat on the computer, and tall
>on the TV.
>
>Sounds like what everyone is saying that the final TV pix is true, then the
>computer must be distorted (which I can understand) but why is the Sony LCD
>also distorted?? Maybe I'm so used to looking at the Sony LCD image that it
>looks normal but isn't.
>
>Guess I'll have to film a perfect circle and look at it on the Sony,
>computer and TV and see which one is true.

That would reveal "the truth", as I suggested below...;-)
I suspect it is cheaper/easier to make the camera LCD
panel with square pixels than with rectangular, so
to show the whole image on the panel, its proportion
would need to be 3:2 (720x480) instead of 4:3 (640x480),
since mini-DV video (NTSC) is 720x480 (though when output
for viewing on a TV, its proportions are restored to
4:3). 'Course, it is not uncommon for TVs to show
aspect ratios incorrectly, and you may often be viewing
the LCD panel not straight-on, so it is possible for
the image to appear to have differing proportions on the
LCD panel, computer monitor, and on various TVs...;-)
Try the circle test...;-)