HD Camcorder: Canon HV20

dude are you kidding me this cameras awesome but tehe image stabilizer doesnt work to well its shaky as hell

Theres nothing wrong with tapes, I would hate a camera that was all HDD like the shit Jvc Cameras. Theres alot more freedom with tapes then HDD.

Tapes are the best. THE QUALITY IS THE BEST!

"...looks like were gonna have to wait another year" haha! Get rid of tape? Wont happen.

...cool this guy.

what a load of tosh... The tape is still the best format there is. It's just some people nowadays have no patience and want things instantly and just assume tape is old fashioned. The problem with hard drive and sd card formats is alot of the editing programs don't have the support for them yet. DV is universal.

actually its the opposite alot of industry standard software is adapting to avchd and a bunch of them: sony vegas, imovie, final cut already support it, so i dont know wut yer smoking bro. the output format for tape still encodes to either avchd or mpg 2 its just the quality thats better.

Another reason I heard why hard drives aren't yet worth it is because there aren't many codecs or anything that support it, it's still wise to stay with DV.

thats a load of bull do some research before you comment, almost all the industry standard video software support hard drive format aka "avchd" they are worth it trust me i own one...the only difference with tape is better quality because it has a more raw format.

but the consumer cameras dont use "avchd" so those consumer cameras don't have the best quality... although i dont mindthe slight loss of quality over saving space when you have hundreds of tapes laying around your desk and probally 50% have no label.(alot of harddisk cameras are also optimized for pc editing, and that was a big problem for me)