Here is my question. Theses cameras are great, but I'll stick with my HDV tape. First of all, the quality is all there, there is no pixelizations, compression or transfer artifacts. Also, I always have the tapes of everything I recorded. Just put it in and watch it. On an HDD camcorder, I have to constantly transfer my recordings to my computer and no matter what program you use, you will always lose quality. Second, you need at least 300gb HDD on you computer and it will slow it down with all the crap you have on it and if your computer HDD crashes, you loose all the memories you had stored. Third, recording your memories on a portable media just to store it again (fear of losing it) is an extra step and wasted time unless it is a complete edited home video (your own little movie). So all these steps with HDD camcorder just to store it on a dvd or blu ray (DV tape can hold one Hour of full 1080i quality). I am big on video quality and like my picture as original as I recored it. This is just my conclusion. I want to know how others feel about HDD camcorders and if someone can convince me to buy it, please do.
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Here is my question. Theses cameras are great, but I'll stick with my HDV tape. First of all, the quality is all there, there is no pixelizations, compression or transfer artifacts. Also, I always have the tapes of everything I recorded. Just put it in and watch it. On an HDD camcorder, I have to constantly transfer my recordings to my computer and no matter what program you use, you will always lose quality. Second, you need at least 300gb HDD on you computer and it will slow it down with all the crap you have on it and if your computer HDD crashes, you loose all the memories you had stored. Third, recording your memories on a portable media just to store it again (fear of losing it) is an extra step and wasted time unless it is a complete edited home video (your own little movie). So all these steps with HDD camcorder just to store it on a dvd or blu ray (DV tape can hold one Hour of full 1080i quality). I am big on video quality and like my picture as original as I recored it. This is just my conclusion. I want to know how others feel about HDD camcorders and if someone can convince me to buy it, please do.