Originally Posted by ScottC

The Sony you link to is lovely, but it is also an HDTV camera, for "daily" use you'd be better off with a good 3CCD camera, my personal favourite is the Panasonic GS-150.

These Panasonic devices are pretty much the cheapest 3CCD cameras out there at the moment.

3CCD is better as there is one CCD chip for each color, instead of the camera alternating between each color on just one chip and mixing them together.