"True HD" may not be such a meaningful term going forward--sounds a lot
like "Broadcast Quality" which has been meaningless gibberish even longer
than the buzzword "Digital".

HDV can be 1080i, as with the Sony HVR-Z1U.

There are many obvious advantages to shooting with larger professional HD
cameras from Panasonic and Sony, inc. broad choices of lenses--zooms and
primes, more robust tape formats, multicam switched capabilities, more
choices of "looks", etc. etc. But when the choice comes down to economics,
$5000 will work in a lot more situations than $50,000 --100,000. The
economic advantage is overwhelming, and will be a huge factor going forward.

It's only a matter of time before HDNET or similar distribution channels
will accept projects shot on HDV, IF THE CONTENT IS STRONG, and the
production is done carefully, and perhaps transferred to HDCAM or whatever
for delivery.

For several years after the advent of DV, DVC Pro and DVCAM, most
professionals assumed it would only be used in narrow niches and never
replace the likes of Betacam and Digital Betacam. But it has.

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Subject: [HD and Digital Cinema Production] Digest Number 92


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> 1. HDV acceptable for broadcast?
> From: "scotwrubin" <scotwrubin@...>
> 2. Re: HDV acceptable for broadcast?
> From: Scott Aaron <snwbrdr1982@...>
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> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:07:41 -0000
> From: "scotwrubin" <scotwrubin@...>
> Subject: HDV acceptable for broadcast?
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> I'm getting involved in a fairly large 3 day production and we're
> weighing the costs/benefits to shooting in True HD or using HDV.
> The first use of the content will be online distribution so it will
> obviously be compressed.
> We would like to use the assets to produce some specials for HD
> broadcast and wonder if networks are only airing programming shot in
> TRUE HD.
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> Any feedback would be appreciated.
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> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:30:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Scott Aaron <snwbrdr1982@...>
> Subject: Re: HDV acceptable for broadcast?
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> I suggest shooting in True HD (1080i format) as
> opposed to using the HDV. I have used the HDV and they
> do poor in low lighting, high movement, quick zooms,
> and quick pans! HDNet (www.hd.net) only accepts
> programming shot in TRUE HD their format is the 1080i,
> you may try that.
>
> --- scotwrubin <scotwrubin@...> wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting involved in a fairly large 3 day
>> production and we're
>> weighing the costs/benefits to shooting in True HD
>> or using HDV.
>> The first use of the content will be online
>> distribution so it will
>> obviously be compressed.
>> We would like to use the assets to produce some
>> specials for HD
>> broadcast and wonder if networks are only airing
>> programming shot in
>> TRUE HD.
>>
>> Any feedback would be appreciated.