"John T" wrote in message
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Your information is a bit out of date.

Maybe. It's been two years since I bought a video camera, and probably
about a year since I've done any serious shopping for one. However, you
haven't written anything to suggest to me that my information is all that
out of date.

Sony has a couple models (although only one would be considered "consumer"
and even then more "pro-sumer"): HDR-HC1 and HDR-FX1. The HC1 can be
found for about $1500 or so while the FX1 goes for more than twice that.
Both units do 1080i and output on standard FireWire connections.

Jose wrote "home video". Even $1500 is just barely "home video" for most
people, and of course twice that isn't at all.

There are other HD camcorders, but the pickings are still slim.

In addition, to me saying "home video" implies that the entire market has
shifted that way. One 1080i camera just barely breaking into the consumer
price range hardly constitutes a market shift.

Perhaps I misunderstood Jose's intent. But it doesn't seem to me that the
home video market has generally gotten to any high-definition, never mind
1080i. When I look at the cameras available in the store for the purpose of
home video, they are all still standard-def, generally either MiniDV or
DVD-R. This includes the "newest stuff".

Yes, high-def is available, but as near as I can tell most people are still
recording their home video in the same standard-def format they've been
doing for years (albeit with slightly better quality, due to the advent of
digital formats).

Pete