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Torn between 3 camcorders

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Ok, first off thanks for reading this and providing any feedback.

I am looking to get a new camcorder, a "prosumer model". I am currently torn between 3 models. They are all mini dv, but 2 of them are standard defenition, while the third is high def.

Canon GL2

Sony DCR-VX2100

Sony FX7

Here is where my issue arises. I can edit hd content, but cannot write it to dvd to watch, so the hd cam is kind of pointless right? But part of me thinks that the hd cam is only 500 bucks more and hopefully in a year we will have an affordable way of writing hd content to blu-ray.

I guess my question to everyone is, which of the 3 would you choose, and why.

Again thank you for the help.
 
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I've said this before; "With DVD Studio Pro, you can create hi-def HD-DVD content to a regular DVD. I've gotten that far, it plays via DVD Player, but I haven't got a player to test it in." The problem is DVD Studio Pro only comes packaged with the Final Cut Studio Suite at well over a grand.

I only mention this, because soon I think that will be a option. I wonder if it will come in iDVD in the future though because Steve Jobs current attitude seems to be that online distribution is the future. It may take a third party to do it.
 

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