On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:40:27 +0100, "will99" wrote:

>The Canon ZR40 is listed as having "1/6" CCD (charge coupled device),
>approx. 460,000 pixels (approx. 290,000 effective pixels)".
>http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/camera/dv/f_index.html
>
>The equivalent Canon model in Europe is the MV500i. It is listed as having
>"540,000 pixels with 340,000 effective pixels"
>http://www.jessops.com/ or
>http://www.canon.de "1/6 Zoll Interlace CCD (540.000 Pixel / 360.000
>effektiv)"
>
>
>The same holds true for the other cameras in the Canon MV400 and 500 range
>and their ZR equivalents. Surely the MV and ZR equivalents are the same
>camera ? Can anyone comment on why they are advertised with different pixel
>counts on the CCD ?

NTSC and PAL have differing numbers of scan lines. The
Mini-DV resolutions are 720x(scan-line-number), which
means the PAL image requires a higher number of pixels...