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A good way to have a discussion is to use terms without definning them...
From this discussion HD is very crap "tube" quality video and HD is slightly better....
This is a million miles from true HD even of the compressed Blu Ray format at 25,000 bits per sec.....
The films we shot widescreen SD still have to be compressed down to 2,000 bits per sec to run on punters computers.
It will still be many years before we could put SD quality films online.
Even now a lot of our members are still downloading the smaller files encoded at only 500 bps.
We shoot HD for various reasons...The camera is very good to use with proper focus, zoom and exposure. The films can be exploited longer and on different media from blu ray to DVD to internet.
The HD format allows more creativity with lighting, composition and editing....
The best format for the internet in our opinion is to use HD as the production tool, make the films in DVD images, upload them - members then download them from the internet, burn them onto DVD and show them on an upscaling DVD player to HD TV.
A 2 gig download will give them a one hour programme.
That will get them the best quality through the internet that is possible at the moment.
Of course that is not what will happen ....
HD will just be a lie to sell more product...
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