If I had a 500D/T1i or 7D, I'd be hacking on them, too. It shouldn't be too hard to port many of these features to the current set of camera bodies.

If you would have 500d do you think it would be easier to find out frame rate switch in processor if it has 20p mode ?
Or maybe once 7D will be shipped you could dump is firmware and take a look whats happening if you change frame rate and allow this on 5d and 500d ?
How big is the risk to brick camera if you would have 500d sent to you ?

Still not FULL HD...as in 1080p. So yes, it still has a problem. Better, but still a problem for some of us that wants to use a nanoFlash as a better quality video recorder via Live View.

this is really incredible!!

and yes i think thats the point, bypassing the internal h264 compression and allowing recording of the uncompressed hdmi out -- using either a box like a Aja Ki Pro ( aja.com/products/ki-pro/ ) or on a computer with a black magic intensity blackmagic-design.com/products/intensity/ -- though im really waiting for usb 3.0 to arrive - then full 1080i/p recording could be added to any machine with a small hdmi adapter/converter (eg even a laptop) for recording / editing in the field of near losses compressed (eg with pro res or similar) can be done!!

In my case the point is improved ability to focus, by having a better more detailed monitor.

I think 5D Mark II is better anyway than 7D .

No. It records HD of course. Your on camera lcd won't work at the same time as the external one.

Thanks Jackson, one more... If i use other composite video out, may i use standard lcd display? It's difficoult to find HD monitors in Macedonia