HD Camcorders

Anyone got one? Is it a hard drive based? How do you like it?

Anyone got one? Is it a hard drive based? How do you like it?

HD when talking about camcorders can mean two things:
High Definition &
Hard Drive

You can have both, just one or neither.

My friend just bought the Flip High Definition camcorder and it does High Def- video and it also records it to a hard drive. He showed me this past weekend and it seems pretty cool. He made me want to buy one because it was only $200 to record in High Def-.

Pretty good considering it cost over $1000 to record in High Def- just two or three years ago.

I was think HD as in high definition that's also HDD based. Costco has the Canon Vixia HG20 (http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11312906&whse=BC&topnav=&browse=&lang=en-US) for 600 bucks and was thinking of getting that. I was looking at Flip Mino HD as well, it looks pretty cool but I wasn't sure if it was a proper HD camcorder. Plus it can only do 60 min at a time.

I was think HD as in high definition that's also HDD based. Costco has the Canon Vixia HG20 (http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11312906&whse=BC&topnav=&browse=&lang=en-US) for 600 bucks and was thinking of getting that. I was looking at Flip Mino HD as well, it looks pretty cool but I wasn't sure if it was a proper HD camcorder. Plus it can only do 60 min at a time.

$600 is pretty good. The camera I use is a Sony DCR-H90 and is a digital camcorder that records in 16:9. You don't have the resolution but you do have the picture format normally to a widescreen display. I got that about 3 years ago and it is still holding up.

I'd like the idea of HighDef signal but I might hold off until they find some compression for the bandwidth/memory issues you can have with large HighDef video files.