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Best Camera for up to $400 and P.C. friendly

May 18, 2006 12:07PM PDT

hI GUYS,

Can anyone recomend a good camera no more than 400. My biggest concern is that I want something that is easy to transfer movies to computer. I have a Samsung 42 plasma hooked up to my computer and will be viewing movies there as well as storing on hard drive.

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Firewire.
May 18, 2006 10:39PM PDT

The repeating mantra is to connect with firewire. Seems friendly to me.

Bob

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Stick with miniDV
May 18, 2006 11:26PM PDT

MiniDVD camcorders are almost impossible to send video to the computer. Any miniDV camcorder WITH FIREWIRE will work.