My sister just bought a HV10 and I want one too. Having played extensively with one, and read all about it, I can tell you the CMOS chip is 1920x1080i square pixels, but the video is then resampled into 1440x1080i non-square pixels. It means you still get 16x9 but the horisontal resolution is somewhat lower, and the pixels are not square. It is available in Europe as a PAL version. The lowlight performance is much better than expected after reading the review over at camcorderinfo.com. The video at night indoors with normal lighting is crisp and clean and noise free. Maybe they tested a pre-production unit, I don't know, but the video quality at low light is fine. Only thing I don't like about this camera is it lacks headset and mic jacks and HDMI out.
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My sister just bought a HV10 and I want one too.
Having played extensively with one, and read all about it, I can tell you the CMOS chip is 1920x1080i square pixels, but the video is then resampled into 1440x1080i non-square pixels. It means you still get 16x9 but the horisontal resolution is somewhat lower, and the pixels are not square.
It is available in Europe as a PAL version.
The lowlight performance is much better than expected after reading the review over at camcorderinfo.com. The video at night indoors with normal lighting is crisp and clean and noise free. Maybe they tested a pre-production unit, I don't know, but the video quality at low light is fine.
Only thing I don't like about this camera is it lacks headset and mic jacks and HDMI out.