Hey Guys,
So last night was the first time I got to use my SR7. Overall pretty happy with it. It was a dark setting so there is noise in the pcture but I bought the light for the camcorder and it helped a lot.
My main concern is that when I import the video files to my computer today, the Sony Picture Motion Browser software is reporting that my files are 1440x1080i. Is this correct? I knew the SR1 recorded like this but I was under the impression that the SR7 was 1920x1080i. Any other SR7 owners know of any setting I may be missing? If it is 1440x1080i Im ok with it I guess as I imagine daytime shooting will look phenominal still but I really was expecting 1920x1090i. OH well.
-Evangelo2

Yes, the HDV standard is 1440x1080i, I believe basically due to the limitations of being recorded on mini-DV tape. However, when HDV gets played back, it's stretched into 1920x1080i. It's similar to how anamorphic DVDs are actually 4:3, but played back in 16:9.

The SR7 isn't an HDV camera, it uses AVCHD (written to a 60GB hard drive), which does support 1920x1080i (as well as 1440x1080). These days, it seems like the consumer cameras which do full 1920x1080 are trumpeting that fact while those that don't are vague about the actual recorded resolution.

Well, unless there is some setting I missed (and im pretty technically compitent) I would say that the m1ts fiels created by the SR7 are 1440x1080i :(
Im burning my first AVCHD disc now. Can this disc be played back by windows media player by any chance since ot os a on a DV and has AVCHD format on it?
-Evangelo2

1440x1080 is the standard not 1920x1080. It is this way because we still live in the NTSC world and still deal with the 4:3 screen size (1440x1080 is actually 4:3 with widened pixels)

There is only one consumer cam that I know of that puts out 1920 and that's the new JVC HD7. All the rest are 1440... so no, you are not missing anything. That's just the way it is.