Not positive about these, but almost all new higher-end consumer HD camcorders that use solid state storage or harddrives (i.e. tapeless) use AVCHD. AVCHD is based on standard H.264 AVC (aka MPEG-4), but is specialized for the needs of camcorders.
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Specs are fine, but what format do they record to, and is it easily editable with consumer software? Oh and how much are they?
HV40 is normal HDV... like my HV20.
Not positive about these, but almost all new higher-end consumer HD camcorders that use solid state storage or harddrives (i.e. tapeless) use AVCHD. AVCHD is based on standard H.264 AVC (aka MPEG-4), but is specialized for the needs of camcorders.