Um, why 1080i? Are half the rows on the CMOS sensor shut off during a frame-capture? Does this product deliberate capture all 1080 rows and then introduce interlacing (as9)?
perhaps it has something to do with the high definition video standard so you don't have to conform (or stretch) a video to a particular aspect ratio later on.
You have a flawed understanding of how most CCDs capture an image. Not to mention that the CCD isn't 1920x1080 and that 1080i isn't half the resolution of 1080p as you suggest.
It's 1080i because you can't tell the difference between i and p on a camera this cheap.
Also, MPEG-2 is hardly editor friendly, any decent editor is going to transcode it on capture just like AVCHD. They are both long GOP.
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Um, why 1080i? Are half the rows on the CMOS sensor shut off during a frame-capture? Does this product deliberate capture all 1080 rows and then introduce interlacing (as9)?
perhaps it has something to do with the high definition video standard so you don't have to conform (or stretch) a video to a particular aspect ratio later on.
JUST A HUNCH
You have a flawed understanding of how most CCDs capture an image. Not to mention that the CCD isn't 1920x1080 and that 1080i isn't half the resolution of 1080p as you suggest.
It's 1080i because you can't tell the difference between i and p on a camera this cheap.
Also, MPEG-2 is hardly editor friendly, any decent editor is going to transcode it on capture just like AVCHD. They are both long GOP.