Do you need to have a high def tv to be able to watch footage recorded on a high def video camera?

Question

Do you need to have a high def tv to be able to watch footage recorded on a high def video camera?

Answer 1

no, it'll probably looked vertically stretched (like long skinny subjects) unless there is a feature on the camera allowing down-conversion on the fly.

most down-convertors show up as either 'letterbox', 'squeeze' and 'crop'.

find the AV lead for your camera (the yellow/red and white leads and plug it into an input into your tv.

good luck!