Originally Posted by mikesouth

if youo are shooting content for the web Id go with one of the avchd models with 3 chips and a hard drive you can get one sub 1K and wait a bit and let it flesh out a bit more.

and there are some real advantages to avchd, like they play right off the camera on a PS3

or an xbox360 (ie no reencoding) just burn to a dvd5 or dvd9 or a memory card or whatever works for ya