patrickkirschner (July 31, 2008 at 3:16 pm)

Tapes are the best. THE QUALITY IS THE BEST!

costaricangeneral (July 4, 2008 at 5:04 am)

but the consumer cameras dont use "avchd" so those consumer cameras don't have the best quality... although i dont mindthe slight loss of quality over saving space when you have hundreds of tapes laying around your desk and probally 50% have no label.(alot of harddisk cameras are also optimized for pc editing, and that was a big problem for me)

JoelMorehouse (June 26, 2008 at 5:25 am)

"...looks like were gonna have to wait another year" haha! Get rid of tape? Wont happen.

6543212341 (June 20, 2008 at 8:06 am)

thats a load of bull do some research before you comment, almost all the industry standard video software support hard drive format aka "avchd" they are worth it trust me i own one...the only difference with tape is better quality because it has a more raw format.

6543212341 (June 20, 2008 at 8:03 am)

actually its the opposite alot of industry standard software is adapting to avchd and a bunch of them: sony vegas, imovie, final cut already support it, so i dont know wut yer smoking bro. the output format for tape still encodes to either avchd or mpg 2 its just the quality thats better.

ZiaGiuliana (June 18, 2008 at 3:34 pm)

...cool this guy.

thimbalistic (May 18, 2008 at 7:32 pm)

what a load of tosh... The tape is still the best format there is. It's just some people nowadays have no patience and want things instantly and just assume tape is old fashioned.The problem with hard drive and sd card formats is alot of the editing programs don't have the support for them yet. DV is universal.

shishnit (April 18, 2008 at 6:52 am)

Another reason I heard why hard drives aren't yet worth it is because there aren't many codecs or anything that support it, it's still wise to stay with DV.

AngerPacifist (March 31, 2008 at 11:11 pm)

I don't think you know what you're talking about. The images on the tape ARE compressed! Look it up. Now you can run a SD cable out of HV20 and capture (with a delay) your footage through Final Cut Pro for the best quality this camera allows.and 24fps is not annoying, but is and was the industry standard for the last 80+ years. It's an established format for a reason and that's what most professional filmmakers try to capture.

biologu (March 27, 2008 at 4:48 pm)

true