Record 60fps but 30 fps CCD output at with AVCHD Lite?

At first, sorry for my poor English...
I’ｍ a Japanese student.

In Japan, the rumor says TZ7 (ZS3)'s CCD can't output 60fps but 30fps.
A small text "AVCHD Lite 60fps *Output from CCD is 30fps" is seen in Panasonic web site.
The way of saving movie files record the movie as 60 fps.
But CCD outputs 30fps. So we see the movies like a 30fps movie.(It may not be smooth.)
　　
Panasonic customer support of says CCD output is also 60fps.
But we can't believe it ,because the information in the official web site isn't modified for a long time.
And big argumentations has happened in 2-channel ,a biggest web message board in Japan.

So I have a question.
In foreign countries (America,EU,etc) , what do you hear about this information?
Which is true? All of record is 60 fps? Or, data from CCD is 30fps and recorded 60fps (like 30fps)?

I'm sorry for my poor English. Thank you for reading.

that is wrong - the ZS3/TZ7 cannot infact record in true 60 frames per second. What it does is simply doubles the 30 frames per second, doubling each frame and is a pointless waste of space.

The sensor can only output 30 frames per second, as shown by the specs on the panasonic website - which means it can truely only output a max of 30 frames per second.

Looking at the sample videos you can clearly see the frames are cloned. Only every other frame is unique. So the claim that Panasonic is making about outputting 60fps is true, but they accomplish this by doubling the frames. So, really it is a lie and they just produce 30fps. This is very strange, but it is happening.

Thank you Chris and scstudios-
You two finally answered the actual question Super XP was asking,
thanks!
Dcb

Chris,sctudios and Dcb. Thank you for replying me.
And I'm so sorry for my very late gratitude.

I checked the movie taken with TZ7 by PS3　and I used frame-by-frame advance.
And I saw that there are same two frames.
(That's not true 60fps.)

I'm satisfied with TZ7 , but I expect that the next TZ series will have a ability that can take true 60fps movies.
I take a walk with my TZ7 and I enjoy taking photos and movies now^^

Thank you so much for your reply and reading my poor English!

Thanks,
And the answer brings up this question:
Since shooting at true 30 fps a valueable choice when shooting in low light.. does this doubled-up 30fps
remove the low light advantage that true 30 fps would offer?

hi all:
I intend to buy a new camera, and I found tz7 a great one, any one have an idea about her competetors? but same comact design, ? pls advice
tks
Wael

If i shoot a video how long I can shoot.Which memory GB I can use.what about battery charge ,how long exist If I shoot the video.

If my english is poor ,sorry for that.