<<<-- Originally posted by Rob Lohman : Just out of curiousity. How is a HD TV station going to air your HD footage? In other words how is the bridge between HDV and the MPEG2 HD (which they are transmitting I presume) going to be made? -->>>

I agree with waiting to buy this camera, but I wanted to comment on your statement.

HDV is MPEG2 HD. HDV is simply the HD MPEG2 broadcast standard (that all the HD stations use) combined with a mechanism to record that format to regular DV tapes. That was the impetus behind the HDV format in the first place, to come up with a way to create a recording format that was equivalent to the distribution format.

So he has nothing to worry about with that regard, it is basically native broadcast format.

Ben