I can't imagine paying over two grand for any camera that didn't have XLR inputs. I like the HDV option, though, and remember that you can always use that firewire connection to plug into an external hard drive (not just any HD, but something like the firestore linked below.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I can't imagine paying over two grand for any camera that didn't have XLR inputs. I like the HDV option, though, and remember that you can always use that firewire connection to plug into an external hard drive (not just any HD, but something like the firestore linked below.
http://www.focusinfo.com/solutions/catalog.asp?id=150