http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/ Engadget Comments for Sony TG3E: world's smallest 1080i camcorder unboxed, sized-up with 720p champ http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/When you record what format is it in..divx ?
Oh, and 1080HD is 1920x something right ? what is that something ?
thanks :)]]>May 2nd 2008 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 5:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/HD ; FH (1920x1080i, 16Mbps) / HQ (9Mbps) / SP (7Mbps) / LP (5Mbps) , SD ; HQ (9Mbps) / SP (6Mbps) / LP (3Mbps
]]>May 2nd 2008 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/Yep thats part of it :) They'll also try and convince you that 1440p (the next step after 1080p) is Ultra HD.

@bob
Its VERY noticeable, atleast in my opinion, on a nice 104" wide projector screen :) But I'm wondering if thats the hardware being silly sometimes....]]>May 2nd 2008 8:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/
divx (like xvid, h.264, etc.) is mpeg-4. and that only refers to the elementary video stream, which can be contained in avi, mov, mp4, mkv, etc.

@Mike

it's actually more honest to call both 1920 and 1440 full hd. although most "full hd" delivery video streams from cable/satellite/ota is 1920, most CCD/CMOS acquisition in even high end cameras is still 1440 - so your 1920 has likely been scaled from 1440 anyway. this applies mostly to television, though, and not movies.
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While 1080i may sound like it has higher resolution vertically than 720p, it's deceiving. Because only every other scan line is drawn during each field, the image must be blurred vertically to prevent twitter. Twitter is the flickering or shimmering of very fine horizontal details, which occurs when those details are only a single scan line in height. Since interlaced video draws each scan line only every other field, a detail only one scan line in height is missing entirely from the next field.

Therefore, the apparent vertical-resolution advantage of 1080i is largely squandered by this vertical filtering. When you combine that with the poor motion rendering and the difficulty in working with interlaced footage for any kind of effects, it adds up to a dinosaur that should have long ago been rendered extinct.

Insist on progressive scan.]]>May 14th 2008 5:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 5:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/]]>May 2nd 2008 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 8:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 3rd 2008 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/I searched wiki on AVCHD because I am looking at the HF10 or 100.
Those two cameras are supposed to have the ability to shoot in 1080/24p . Yet the wiki site says AVCHD is not capable of recording in 1080/24p. I am just starting out looking for a camera so I do not have much knowledge about this stuff. But the why sell a 1080/24p video camera when the codec is only capable of 1080/60i.
If that's the case, then I would never be able to see the benefits of paying the extra money for the 24p.

One more question. What is the best video camera I can buy for $1500 plus or minus.

Thanks]]>May 4th 2008 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/
I now have a Sony CX6. It is awesome. Unlike Mr Vage, I worked through the challenges of AVCHD.. not hard really: Sony Vegas (imho the best NLE for video anyway.. been using it since v3) handles them natively no bother at all. I usually deinterlace (smart deinterlace filter) and convert to 720p60 which gives a really sharp picture (no current consumer camera captures anything like 1440x1080 pixels of resolution). This gets me super smooth motion and ability to do sweet slo mos, etc when I am shooting inflight video (fly a paramotor). Also the optical image stabiliser is great.

Even without vegas: virtualdubmod will quickly convert AVCHD to an intermediate format (I suggest cineform) which can then be edited by any NLE.

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The Sanyo Xacti HD1000 has the headphone jack and everything else (no touchscreen though, which is good or bad depending on who you're talking to) and it's proving to be a real winner in terms of design/build and video quality, and overall performance.]]>May 2nd 2008 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/
1) What the hell is up with Pastel mode? Can you actually see an image with it? It looked to us like a giant whitewash.

2) Please test it in indoor, moderate light conditions. I found a boatload of dithering.

Outdoors, the images were spectacular, and the 5.1 mic is frighteningly accurate. Please take a look at the two points, which were the biggest two complaints (outside of barely-an-hour recording on a 4 gig memstick in HD)]]>May 2nd 2008 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/
*gulp*]]>May 2nd 2008 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 4th 2008 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/i remember when having a color tv set meant you were filthy rich!!! i think we are over-looking "the REAL picture" but that is just my two and a half cents! personally, if you dont have an imax at home(litterally) then you "aint got nuttin yet!"
LCD and projection screens are something of the past(let them die, or ELSE!!!), go oled!!!! :D
[other news] i cant wait for my 8gb SD card!!! im about to wet my pants!
"one day i will rule the world of infinite storage capacities and provide them FREE for $9,999.99(plus 1 cent, universe tax)" ~my 07d proverb]]>May 2nd 2008 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/
http://sanyodigital.com/product.aspx?v=17]]>May 2nd 2008 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 2nd 2008 1:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/
I have a Xacti HD700 and really like it, but the video needs to be converted before it can be used in FCE, but works fine in iMovie HD.

And, the video quality from the HD700 in outdoor conditions, especially sunny, is great. Indoors, it gets worse rapidly. ]]>May 2nd 2008 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/I haven't been able to test both camcorders side by side yet (I only have access to the Sony) but from testing the Sony it seems to handle indoor situations with minimal disortion, there is some dithering as described by bassbeast but i didn't feel it was as intrusive as he does.
Hope this helps.]]>May 4th 2008 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 3rd 2008 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.sony.co.uk/view/ShowArticle.action?article=1206545456395&site=odw_en_GB&source=rss]]>May 4th 2008 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 3rd 2008 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/sonys-worlds-smallest-tg3e-1080i-camcorder-unboxed-sized-up-w/May 3rd 2008 3:17AM