I have the HV20 and it shoots great video! I do a lot of shooting of events that I go to. Sometimes events are 4-6 hours and long 2 days straight. Imagine trying to offload your 1st days work onto your PC at night to get your camcorder ready for the 2nd day and then 2 days later you go to another event, just way too much work! Tapeless also seems nice until you run out of HD space on your computer and then you find out very quickly how screwed you are, not good. Yes tapeless can hold hours of vids but at the lowest picture quality.
Tapes are easy to swap out and very cheap. However if you are going to do some casual recording hear and there and you have a TON of processing power, then knock yourself out!
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Xzavier @ Nov 18th 2007 2:33PM
I have the HV20 and it shoots great video! I do a lot of shooting of events that I go to. Sometimes events are 4-6 hours and long 2 days straight. Imagine trying to offload your 1st days work onto your PC at night to get your camcorder ready for the 2nd day and then 2 days later you go to another event, just way too much work! Tapeless also seems nice until you run out of HD space on your computer and then you find out very quickly how screwed you are, not good. Yes tapeless can hold hours of vids but at the lowest picture quality.
Tapes are easy to swap out and very cheap. However if you are going to do some casual recording hear and there and you have a TON of processing power, then knock yourself out!