Re: DVX100 or post-production 24p Nattress filter?

With regards to the image quality, usually the die-hard 24p people state that the DVX blows the sony away, but the sony people claim that they can match the DVX in picture quality. The argument usually goes:

Panny: You can tweak the image better in the DVX
Sony: You get a cleaner original image in the Sony for post-work
Panny: You get 24p with the DVX
Sony: With post filters I can produce an image that you can't tell wasn't 24p as well
Panny: why go through that process?
Sony: why not, if I can shoot a cleaner first image?
Panny: Mine shoots a clean image too and has better color control
Sony: not if the light drops down below nominal levels, and any GOOD filmmaker tweaks their color in post

and on and on and on.

Fact is, both shoot really good images. The difference between 24p and 60i converted to 24p is virtually un-noticable when run through a TV, and it is purely an aesthetic preference when you get right down to it. The Panny has more depth in the in-camera cine-gamma (for converting analog colors to the digital colors), but then similar adjustments can be made in post with little or no "quality" degradation.

If you convert to film, the Panny eliminates a few steps. But the technology is out there to do excellent 60i to film transfers that are just as good, when done properly.

If you already have good results with the camera you have, why change?