In message , John Russell
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Now when we get camcorders with 5m pixel CCD's it might be worth
having. Even phone's come with 1m pixel camera's now!

We have to remember that some camcorder makers (notably Canon and Sony)
have large digital still camera markets, and they're not going to
compete between commercial divisions.

Since most digital cameras offer MPEG-1 video, your could argue 'why not
provide DV video in digital still cameras?'.

And there's another argument that higher Mega-px camcorders would
require larger and more expensive memory sticks (or memory cards).

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Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info