Best camcorder?

Question

Someone told me to stick with tape rather than internal hard drive. confused.

Answer 1

The person who told you that is correct. MiniDV tape uses DV (or HDV) format to write to the tape. It is a lot less compression than MPEG2 or AVCHD or VOB used by flash memory, hard drive or DVD based camcorders. Compression = lost/discarded data = reduced video quality.

MiniDV tape uses the least amount of data compression which results in best available video quality.

Take a look at the pro camcorders... They use miniDV tape.