Choosing miniDV Camcorders

Do you know if the Sony DCR TRV-50 supports progressive scan ? Thanks!

Well, I simply searched with Google (+Sony +"DCR TRV-50") and found a lot of information. According to computeruniverse.net the cam has a "normal movie mode" (interlaced), and a "frame movie mode" (probably progressive). Don't know whether the "frame movie mode" supports full resolution real progressive scan or if it just a cheap deinterlacing version... bb

BB, All this is confusing to me. It seems that the camera has a progressive photo mode. Sony's website has no information. But I found this. What does all that mean? Frame Recording Mode allows recording of any individual frame of the 30 frames that make up one second of video. Progressive Shutter System By using a mechanical shutter with an interlace scanning system, the progressive shutter provides a progressive scan performance, while the camcorder captures sharp and clear images. Thanks

Sounds like a fake progressive mode... But I don't know for sure, really. What I've heard so far is that Sony doesn't produce camcorders with a real progressive scan feature. Unfortunately I don't know if this has changed in the meantime. bb

hi, as far as i know sony uses some weird progressive scan at 15fps. I've tried this on DSR-PD100AP, it looks badly jerky and has a lot of smear. regards, Margus