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Everybody has a different eye for quality; I prefer to use my third eye.
Manufacturers among DALSA, Thomson Grass Valley, Sony Professional, Panasonic Professional, and even ARRI are exploring the possibilities of utilizing advanced proprietary imaging sensors like CMOS over CCD. They're also using wavelets; a much more advanced compression format than the little HDVCamcorders' MPEG2. They’re also shifting to pure digital media, such as solid state, and it's also a possibility for these professional cameras to make the first shift to fluid lens systems. ALSO, as the quality of these cameras advances beyond HD, and require greater storage capacities because of capturing higher quality images, memory-storing devices won’t be analogue or digital, it will go molecular, leaving endless possibilities for them to make the image as dynamic as they would like.
So, when you compare those advancements with the current status of HDVCamcorders, it's obvious that the standards remain disproportionate, and by scale, the HDVCamcorders used by consumers/prosumers will be mediocre.