ongoing reports:
I think the camcorder vendors are about to make a lot of money. First, there’s the advent of affordable consumer HD. Obviously, the consumer product has all sorts of problems, most notably the lack of high-def players. But if you care about what you’re shooting, this is the first-ever archival-quality option, and that matters. The real reason is that, increasingly, there are a lot of people—I’m one—with a wide-screen TV and a camcorder that can’t fill it. The basic value proposition—take movies that look good on your TV—ain’t there. At one level, it would be really tough to upgrade to 16:9 and not go all the way to HD. But that camera Pogue wrote up (It’s called the “HDR-HC1”, but Sony’s site, gimme a break, I am not so foolish as to link to URIs beginning
sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USDin the hope that they’ll last); anyhow, that camera, you’re paying a whole bunch and there are issues. It’s going to be interesting times.
I'm not so sure. I have an HD TV, but I'm not itchin to shoot HD video. In fact, I'm looking the other direction... a still camera with video capabilities like the Casio Exilim series. All I want to do is capture those precious moments when my child(ren) do amazing/silly/adorable things. What'dya know, AVI is still playable via QuickTime, what more "archival" property do I need? I don't want to spend a ton of time editing video. I think iPhoto has it right, just store the snippets like all my other photos and make is easy for me and my family to browse them around the coffee table.
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