Oh one final thing. With a 1920x1080 chip that means your live component output is a true 1920x1080 pixel image and not pixel shifted or interpolated. This doesn't really matter for consumers however.

Oh one other thing I thought about is the bayer filter. Starting with 1920x1080 pixel cmos sensor means a little bit more detail to work with when a bayer filter is used. While bayer and RGB filtering has gotten a lot better it still isn't as sharp as a 3 chip design. Starting with 1920 using the bayer filter and then down sampling to 1440 should make a more detailed image then starting with a 1440 chip and using a bayer filter.

The hc1 has a 1920x1440 sensor area. No difference there.

hollly sheet, ive been backpacking in colorado and waiting to post a thread about how i wanted a matchbook vertical hdv camera, beautiful, prayers answered

1 CCD Canon CMOS camera

I think you'll want to fix that, I assume it was a mental slip. 1CCD is different from CMOS.

anyone know when this is due in the marketplace. i've read october/november, is that true? isn't about the same time as the xh series?

Starts shipping mid September, it'll be out before the XH camcorders.

thx Chris for continuing to bring us latest+greatest info. i think we all appreciate the amt. of work you do for us =).

~$1,300 for 1920x1080 is a steal for home movies.

it's also great for those who are on a *real* tight budget. i can't wait to test the video caps on my front projector. now, my projector isn't 1080p but @1024x768 i think i can get a good idea of how the visual quality is.

do you think there'll be a lot of pt time videographers using this to replace their SD gear just for the sake of resolution? even 1080 downrez to SD-DVD anamorphic will look better than 480p... will it?

the next few years ought to be very interesting as the lines begin to blur between consumers, prosumers and pros...

I'm going to use it for all my drive by shootings and general walking around camera. I'm hoping that it's low light capability when using it in SD mode is pretty good. I'm constantly on the move and always wanted to be able to scan new potential locations with a handy dandy little camera and this one looks just about perfect. Although I wonder if they're coming out with the AVCHD version of it. Now that would guarantee me buying instantly.