What are the Best HDD Camcorders in the market today?

Question

what are the best HDD camcorders, NOT HD but HDD?

I went to stores and the one that caught my attention was the JVC GZ-MG360 because it looks slimmer and way better than rest of the HDD cameras and was black with Konica Minolta Lens.

I saw the Sony, Panasonic and Canon and they all look bigger and with no style, that didn't caught my attention. they had pretty much same specs.

I'm only judging for the appearance and looks but I would like to know which HDD is better, although i know for many people looks and size matter a lot.

can anyone please help to decide, Thanks.

If you can, can you please post websites that support your argument, only if you can.

Answer 1

Presuming you actually mean the best as in "best available video quality", then the BEST HDD camcorders available are actually miniDV tape based camcorders with an external hard drive connected via firewire.

http://firestore.com/solutions/catalog.a...

If all you are concerned about is what the camcorder looks like as opposed to the quality of the video they capture, then you already know, "they had pretty much same specs" so all you need to do is flip a coin a couple of times.

Maybe there is some sort of other feature differentiator that is interesting to you... for example, many of the Sony camcorders have an infrared emitter for capturing monochromatic video in zero-light ("SuperNightShot") or can burst high speed recording ("Smooth Slow Record") that the others do not have. Check the model number's specs at the manufacturer's web site to determine if special features are available on a particular camcorder...