If you do buy the NTSC versions of HG10 or the HV20, and you want to record in 24p instead of 60i (in order to get the 'movie look'), you will have to remove pulldown: You can upgrade to Vegas Pro for $180 these days: Either that, or you will have to buy Vegas Pro.

If you don't want to buy a tape camcorder, buy the HG10, but, you will have to buy either a Sony PS3 or an XBoX360 to watch your 1080p or 720p videos on TV. This is the camcorder of the year so far, and while the hardware is exactly the same as in the HG10, it has a better quality because HDV at 25mbps has better quality (so far) than h.264 in AVCHD at 15 mbps. So, here's what I suggest:īuy the tape-based Canon HV20.

So even if you buy such a camcorder today, you won't be able to put back your edited footage on it to watch it on TV. Now, to make things worse, VMS won't let you upload AVCHD files back to the camcorder (only Vegas Pro can do that right now).

However, AVCHD is not a mature environment right now. The Canon HG10 is the strongest consumer AVCHD camcorder today.

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