I'm just about to buy an HV30. One seller I'm considering states that they have a worldwide version which is both PAL & NTSC compatible.

Does such a beast exist?

I live in PAL land. :-(

Ian
Festival Video and Audio Previews - Festival Previews Ltd (http://www.festivalpreviews.com)

Not certain, but it sounds dubious. Multi-standard cams are most often found at the pro and prosumer level. From what I've seen, Canon sell a kit to additionally enable NTSC on PAL cams, and PAL on NTSC cams. I don't believe they sell an A1 model that natively supports both standards, but I might be wrong on this.

My best suggestion would be to pour over the Canon site to see if you can find anything about cross/standard support for the HV30. If nothing turns up, I'd suspect that this vendor is trying to sell you the proverbial bill of goods.

Thanks for the reply. The seller confirmed it was PAL but when I then checked their ebay feedback, I found a trail of complaints about cameras not being PAL and various other difficulties. I guess I should have done that first!

So the answer seems to be no, the beast doesn't exist!

Ian
Festival Video and Audio Previews - Festival Previews Ltd (http://www.festivalpreviews.com)