"Tony Morgan" wrote in message
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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

Memory is always getting quicker, bigger and cheaper.

You can get a sony 256mb Duo for £29. That would store about 150 pics from a
3 mpixel CCD camera. Crumps I would have to spend more than that on film and
processing to get 150 pics via my SLR.