HELP: Need to find a good HD Video Recorder with DV tapes

[ICRS]

I don't get why ones that use DV tapes cost more than hard drives. They should be cheaper to make and thus cheaper for consumers.

 

[mcmilljb]

Nope. More mechanical parts than HD.

 

[potato28]

DV is higher quality, better battery life and a lot easier for professionals to use than HDD's. Most likely you'll be looking at the cheaper JVC HDD camcorders.

 

[TruePaige]

Originally posted by: potato28
DV is higher quality, better battery life and a lot easier for professionals to use than HDD's. Most likely you'll be looking at the cheaper JVC HDD camcorders.

DV is not always higher quality than HDD, especially on high end HDD based camcorders.

DV is dying tech compared to the emerging HDD camcorder market.

 

[Kaido]

Canon HV30. I have the HV20; the HV20 adds 30p recording. Absolutely amazing, much better than the Sony (I had a Sony HC7 - the Canon model is MUCH better).

Feel free to ask any questions

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: TruePaige

Originally posted by: potato28
DV is higher quality, better battery life and a lot easier for professionals to use than HDD's. Most likely you'll be looking at the cheaper JVC HDD camcorders.

DV is not always higher quality than HDD, especially on high end HDD based camcorders.

DV is dying tech compared to the emerging HDD camcorder market.

It's all about encoding. DV can hold more data more cheaply than memory right now, but not for long. My only gripe with consumer-grade HD camcorders like the Canon HF100 is the AVCHD codec, which doesn't look quite as good as my MiniDV transfers. You can get HDD and SSD-based Firewire recorders for MiniDV cams, but they start at $799 so it's not really cost effective (but it's way way cool! ).