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Samsung has unveiled a High Definition (HD) video capture capable digital camera, which it claims is also the world’s smallest 24mm ultra-wide angle digi cam with ten megapixels. NV24HD_front Samsung's NV24 HD: 720p video capture The camera, dubbed NV24 HD, captures HD quality video at a resolution of 720p and has a …

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  1. craig chester
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    10 Mega Pixels??

    A single 720p frame (1280x720) amounts to 921,600 pixels. Less than 1 MP - even a 1080p frame only accounts for just over 2 million pixels. Why do I need a 10 MP sensor to achieve this?

    Even HD webcams from MS for instance boast 5MP sensors. Is it my maths or am I missing something?

    If I am I'll get my coat now plus all the coats in the cloakroom of the school for the terminally dumbass'd that I obviously should be attending...

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Re: 10 Mega Pixels??

    Re: why not 1080p. You're missing something :)

    The sensor could capture 1080p indeed (which only requires 2MP), but compressing a 1080p video stream to MP4 takes a much larger amount of processing and bandwidth, which is harder to fit in a small digital camera (and drives the price up). A 1080p frame has more than twice the number of pixels that a 720p frame has...

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Zoom

    How do they get 3.6x optical zoom from a 2.7 - 5.2mm focal length lens?

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