The Panasonic AG HVX200 is a fixed lens high-definition video camera released in December 2005 (NTSC). It can record HD video on solid state P2 cards or record DV video on MiniDV tapes. It also features variable frame rates (used for slow motion & fast motion cinematography) and a recording data rate of up to 100 Mbit/s, which is four times that of similarly priced HDV and DV cameras.

The camera uses three 1/3 in 960x540 pixel (0.5 mega-pixel) progressive scan CCD's to capture the image. HD resolution is achieved by both horizontal and vertical spatial offset (aka. pixel shift or 'SBS-HD'). The green CCD in the array is physically shifted 1/2 pixel biaxially to achieve up to 50% higher horizontal and vertical resolution. This would make the theoretical maximum resolution of the image, 1440x810 pixels, even though each CCD has only 960x540 photosites. Internally the camera uses 1920x1080. In real-world use the actual measurable resolution of this camera has been tested at 540 lines horizontally by 540 lines vertically (see http://www.adamwilt.com/HD/4cams-part2.html).

The HVX200's resolution is recorded at 960x720 for 720p mode, and 1280x1080 for 1080i mode in 60 Hz territories. The sensors employ variable scanning rates from 2 Hz to 60 Hz (NTSC version)and are always capturing progressive images. The images are always scanned from the chips at a resolution of 1920 x 1080. Those images are then downsampled to a size appropriate for the recording format (for DVCPRO that means 720x480 NTSC; for DVCPRO HD it means 960x720 for 720p or 1280x1080 for US/NTSC 1080i/p..