[Closed] HD Video camera question

Nope. Bit short on the width.

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-definition_television ]HD should be at least 720p[/url], which is 1280×720.

The main problem with that sample clip isn't the resolution - it is just appalling quality!

HD[b]TV[/b] should be 720p.

Outside of broadcast television where it means something specific, it's a largely meaningless marketing term. It's like calling Mars bars "king size" - most kings I can think of are about six foot.

Far as I know, anyway.

There are some sunglasses on Sport Pursuit at the moment that contain a 'HD' camera for recording videos - but the resolution seems to be 640x480. 😕

The whole video 'standards' nonclementure thing is a bloody minefield anyway. It's incredibly short-sighted and misleading. Today's "high definition" is tomorrow's obsolete, so soon you start needing ever-sillier superlatives. High def. Super high def. Mega def <guitar solo> and so on. My laptop screen is properly a "Widescreen Ultra Extended Graphics Array," which just makes me want to kill kittens.

You've got QVGA which is 'quarter VGA' - a fourth of the resolution of VGA - and then QXGA which is 'quad XGA,' a resolution four times [i]higher [/i]than XGA. It's absolutely crackers.

It's like calling Mars bars "king size" - most kings I can think of are about six foot.

I always assumed it was called kingsize because kings generally have a larger appetites then normal people because they're so fantastic and awesome.

Some kings are small, so you'd be getting in to funsize territory there.

Some kings are small, so you'd be getting in to funsize territory there.

Ah. I always wondered what "funking" meant.

Here's some entertaining(*) reading. Particularly, the picture speaks a thousand words.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_display_resolutions

There's a chunk towards the bottom [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_display_resolutions#High-Definition ]here[/url] about HD, supporting what Graham said. I'd suspect though that there's a subtle but important difference between merely claiming a camera is "HD" and claiming that is "records at HD resolution." As Grum says, HD could just mean 'as opposed to a lower resolution'; for example, my camera can set its picture sizes to small, medium, large, but they're meaningless definitions except in relation to each other (I have an older camera from the same manufacturer which uses the same names for much smaller resolutions).

I think, anyway. What I'm getting at is, I don't think "HD" is any sort of protected term. It can mean a specific resolution, or it can mean whatever marketing want it to mean.

(* - if your hobbies also include reading the telephone directory and memorising pi to 100 decimal places)

[i]There are some sunglasses on Sport Pursuit at the moment that contain a 'HD' camera for recording videos - but the resolution seems to be 640x480[/i]

That's the one - I asked if it was an HD camera and they just linked me to the website, where they have copied the description from.
I think they are mis-selling a bit of junk.

[s]I think [/s]they are [s]mis-[/s]selling[s] a bit of [/s]junk.

Hmm, what the whole site ? *raises one eyebrow*