[MacDV] Re: 16:9 vs 4:3

[Granville Kennedy]

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Just finished reading the C-Net/NY Times review of the Sony HDR-FX1.  
Sounds great until the following point was made -

>  My shooting partners were also puzzled by one aspect of this whole 
> amateurs-creating-HDTV revolution: Once you've recorded a high-def 
> movie with the FX1 and then edited it with iMovie, how can you show 
> your masterpiece in high definition? Unless you get the thing 
> distributed commercially, you have only one option: export it back to 
> the camera and then attach the camera to your HDTV set. (You can burn 
> it to a DVD, but it won't be high definition anymore.)

I'm guessing the Job's announcement that this would be the year of HD, 
coupled with the appearance of the Sony bigwig on stage with him, means 
that the HDV codecs may indeed be opened up, and that Apple may pull 
out an upgrade that allows the rest of us to generate HD DVD's.  (Or 
can DVDSP already do that?)  That would be big news indeed, but I'll 
have to wait a long time before I even upgrade to a HDTV...  I'll 
probably need a new Mini-DV camera first ;-)  We'll have to wait for 
something to happen, regardless of the speculation.  Whenever that 
happens, I expect I'll hear about it here first.

Nice to see the list back on topic and provoking thoughts again!

Later,
		Joey Kennedy.

On Feb 12, 2005, at 9:14 PM, Kunga wrote:

> I guess we'll have to wait for NAB to find out if Apple will share 
> their new HDV codec with any external analog to HDV box manufacturers.
>

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