On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:51:01 GMT, "lr" wrote:

>I had someone in this newsgroup explain about progressive Scan in the Sony
>VX-2000 and the Canon GL-1, and I appreciate his help. I forgot to ask him
>a followup question though, maybe he can answer or someone else can. My
>question is: What good is progressive scan, is it good only for better
>quality STILL capture pictures or does progressive scan contribute to
>making a better quality video.

PS has been about the most confusing feature ever put
on camcorders, it would appear...;-) If you MUST grab
non-interlaced stills from *motion*-video (not using
the stills feature), or if you MUST show the highest
quality motion-video *at full resolution* on a computer
monitor (only!), then you may want to use PS-mode...
For ALL else (TV-viewing, film-transfer from NTSC,
web-TV, VCDs at reduced resolution, etc., stick with
interlaced mode for highest-quality TV-viewed image
and little difference for most other uses... PS-mode
will almost always noticeably degrade TV-viewed
video - though some like the degraded result, thinking
it somehow looks more like film (by simulating one of
the shortcomings of film: its relatively poor
motion-rendering ability compared with video).