This is the current crop of HD formats in use today. As with the SD formats, below we list comparisons of resolutions and compression, as well as the various frame sizes and frame rates that are possible.
In addition, one of the main areas of confusion lately is that most of these formats do not record a "true" (full raster)16x9 frame size. Most formats use a type of anamorphic "squeezing" to reduce the bandwidth of the video, recording the widescreen video into...
