Confused by camera resolutions please help!?

i use 720p its good high quality and it does not taken ages and ages to upload .

i would not go below that now though 720p is very good quality i cant tell difference between that and 1080 but then again i dont really do much video tbh about 2 or 3 a week max .

never heard of 1080i .

I have no good news for you.

Resolution numbers for video like 1080p, 720p and 1080i are NOT a measure of image quality.

It's like a car maker listing that their new car makes 400 horsepower. It could be a luxury car, or a total bucket. Sure the 400HP might be true, but that does not tell you if you will be sitting in leather seats, or sitting on milk crates.

1080p is the best resolution spec, but a cell phone can shoot 1080p video, so can a 10,000 dollar camera, guess which one looks better. 1080p video works out to about 2 megapixels, 720p is about 1 megapixel. So bottom line you have more research to do.

Most often, the higher the number, the better but with HD video, the human eye can not distinguish between 1080p and 780p. Just get the higher number in case you decide to play the video on a really huge screen.

Which camera is better? Most of them would have all those resolutions to choose from. What really is important is the amount of control. The more control, the better.

Looks like you got some good answers. But some people are not aware there is a camcorder section, in Yahoo Answers, which will probably expand the information you gained here.

Good Luck.

The first set of numbers refer to video camera resolution and what variety of HD it is. There are standards for this. 1080p and i have the best image quality, and the largest files and are what people like to watch on HD tvs. The i and the p refer to whether it's interlaced or progressive. With interlaced video, alternate frames consist or alternate lines across the sensor which can make the video appear jagged if there's any motion. With the p, you get better quality because every frame is the whole field of view. Some info in the link

0.3MP is the actual number of pixels on the camera sensor (0.3MP = 0.3 megapixels = 300000pixels) and is more often applied to photographs than video. Cameras these days have

many megapixels, typically 18MP for a number of cameras.

As a general rule of thumb, the cost is a good determining factor. Go onto youtube and watch videos. There is an option to watch them in 720 or 1080. By doing so it should illustrate the differences. It is all about pixels. Are you looking at digital or the ones that use magnetic tape? Why you want it is one of the main reasons to ask yourself. If you are going to use it very often then I couldn't see spending a small fortune on one. Find a happy medium.