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Originally Posted by Androbot2084
...it records 60p progressive high definition video which handles motion way better than its interlace competition.
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Well, I think we need to be careful here and not get carried away. 60p is not any
smoother, motion-wise, than 60i, as both take 60 pictures per second. Obviously 60i is only half resolution for each of those pictures, so 60p is
sharper, but the motion itself is not any different.
You would obviously see the interlacing in 60i if you froze the picture, but when viewed in real-time these lines are blurred or eliminated in our brains, so the difference isn't as significant as one would think.
1080/60p lends a certain surreal hyper-reality to video which many people don't like. I'm okay with it. But the smoothness issue is nothing like the difference between, say, 24p or 30p and 60p. It would, however, likely make for nicer slo-mo in editing.
It's also important to be more specific: the unique thing about the Sanyo is not that it does 60p; lots of cams do that in 720. What's new is that it claims do to
1080/60p, which so far no consumer level cam does (and which, by the way, you can't really edit [or possibly even burn to BD, yet -- I don't think 1080/60p is in the BD spec]). And the broadcasters aren't even considering this and probably never will, as they've just spent the last 20 years arguing over formats and switching to either 720/60p or 1080/60i. For now and the foreseeable future, 1080/60p is just sort of an upscaling display technology, not one for acquisition or post-production.
Note that
interlace is a verb and
interlaced is the adjective.