Originally Posted by DirtyDanza

I would steer clear of the HDD cameras...

for home use yes they are great.... for the grab and go on vacation ect ect.. IMO (i post a over 25 DV , dvcreator, DVInfo, ect ect boards, )tape is still the way to go.. then you will always have archive... no matter what.. your child saying da da is not something that you want to loose when the PC (or mac but unlikely) takes a shit now you loose everything unless you edit it and go to dvd right way and keep the dvd... and remember tape is always going to be better that dvd as far as clarity go's... DVD is a compressed version tape is raw... now you can get the HDV codec for cheap from either cannon or sony and the pic quality is amazing.. I personally shoot with z1u's but I recently had a chance to play with the HV30 from cannon and do side by side on the 56 inch 1080 dlp TV from the same source via HDMI and I was very very impressed with the hv30.. I got a deal with sony or I would get one so I am looking at the sony's myself for the wife to have to to a pos on the kids...

bottom line is the HDV codec will blow the gl2 away no questions asked even from a little handheld..

if you want to pick my brain a little more on the deal I will be in front of the comp for a while here just give me an icq 164317652