Ever see a professional grade camera that DOESN'T use DV or miniDV tape? Due to high compression, hard drives and solid state media store an inferior image. Also remember that the most failure-prone part in your computer is the hard disk drive. Camcorders are even rougher on the drive! As to solid-state media, compression is even worse! Memory sticks have a limited life of read/write cycles and more failure prone than inexpensive miniDV tapes that can be digitally copied easily.
MiniDV if you want the best, Hard Drive if you want a toy!
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David @ May 18th 2008 1:19PM
Ever see a professional grade camera that DOESN'T use DV or miniDV tape? Due to high compression, hard drives and solid state media store an inferior image. Also remember that the most failure-prone part in your computer is the hard disk drive. Camcorders are even rougher on the drive! As to solid-state media, compression is even worse! Memory sticks have a limited life of read/write cycles and more failure prone than inexpensive miniDV tapes that can be digitally copied easily.
MiniDV if you want the best, Hard Drive if you want a toy!