Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"We need a digital camera that can be switched on and fire off that first shot fast. It's not a commonly tracked statistic on any review site, and nobody seems to have this information for every camera. We were hoping other readers could inform us as to what small digital cameras can fire off their first pics in under a second (ideally under half a second). It needs to be small, but mostly, just really quick in operation. Thanks!"
The big draw back with HDV format is the capturing process of video to PC. It's a slogger. I hate it so bad that I have over 30+ MiniDV that I recorded from almost late 90's. I tried to burn one tape on DVD and gave up after I made one. It's almost a day process to capture, edit and burn DVD. Sometimes, I want to delete part of the earlier recording but that is a wasteful attemp on tape as it doesn't go with the video flow to reuse that space.
I think future will me flash memory camcorders. So, easy to copy files, more durable, insert and play with PS3 and probably will be easy to burn on Blu-Rays soon.
Flash memory is expensive but the prices are falling fast and I think come this holiday season, we will see lot more new models using flash memory.