Let me guess, Best Buy?? Circuit City??
Do you really think they know what they are talking about??
Mini-dv has been around for over 10 years. It seems to be the one on the way out.
Dvd cams are still fairly new and seem to be extremely popular. They are not going away anytime soon.
Hard drive cams are the most recent craze. They are not nearly as popular as dvd cams.
I don't think you should worry about the salesman.
As far as your last question, thats up to you.
If you like it, you like it.
Any camcorder is better than none. You can't go back and replay those birthdays if you didn't capture them on your camcorder.
I just bought a palm camcorder for my wife. She insisted that she didn't want bells and whistles. Just take the movie, take out the disk and play it in my dvd player.
When I went to purchase it, the salesman told me that mini dvd recorders were being phased out an recommeded mini dv, or hard drive.
I bought a mini dvd Panasonic dvr-d3000 anyway.
Is this guy right? What are the ramifications if he is?
And finally, do you feel I purchased a good recorder for home use (home movies, birthdays etc.)?
Thanks,
Gordon

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