http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlXq8a4piNw

I'm the kind of person who thinks pop should be purchased in refillable glass bottles, so I will be happy to see the cassettes go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVC-Intra

No more forking out 20 bucks every time you want to shoot a couple hours of tape!

It looks like it's Panasonic's proprietary version of AVCHD, but with a higher bitrate ceiling on certain format variants. Interesting.

And at this point, even my cell phone shoots better video than HDV. With all of the awesome HD formats out now, why would anybody want to shoot interlaced anamorphic video ever again? Ever?!

I sure as hell won't.

Yes, cassettes are annoying and obsolete, but you are going to so miss them when your hard drives start quickly filling with HD footage. :yes:

And at this point, even my cell phone shoots better video than HDV. [/B]

Sorry, but no it doesn't. Well, if you're talking a consumer HDV camcorder, maybe, but and HDV camera with an L-Series Canon lens or any of the other prosumer + models will beat the $13.00 iPhone lens every time.

Let's not get carried away. ;)

Sorry, but no it doesn't.

Next time I exaggerate I'll be sure to add the winky emoticon. :grumpy: