Express Action Sports

i know that the $300 is not a lot for an hd video camera and that it won’t be the greatest video quality ever, but i’m just a college kid so my funds are limited to say the least. i record tennis matches with my brother, and we usually play at night, as well as basketball games (during the day). any thoughts?

no consumer HD camera can record sports action except as a blur. that is because of the super high compression. MPEG4, AVCHD and similar codecs record only one actual frame and then throw out the next 7, giving it a GOF factor of 8. on playback the missing frames have to be guessed at by interpolation, which gives blurry jumpy results.

the solution is to use the system most widely used by Action Sports videographers, which is miniDV. while not HD it can be shot in the widescreen mode so the picture will fill an HDTV screen. And you can get one for under $300, look at the Canon ZR960.

If you have been watching the tech news of late you probably have heard about free PC satellite TV and how popular this is becoming. Even so, there are still a lot of questions being asked by the average person and this article hopes to clear up some of those.

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Iprwire Staff Writer
http://www.articlesbase.com/computers-articles/what-is-free-pc-satellite-tv-95260.html

Your off topic in the cameras forum, but I’ll answer anyways.

What you are looking for is a television that has a refresh rate of 120Hz or higher. It looks like they call it 480Hz Sub-field drive. That is the technology you are looking for when buying a Viera TV. For best playback, get a set that also includes 24p Cinematic Playback.