mini dv camcorders

[lee8040]

how long will these camcorders and espically the tapes be made for ?

i know they have been around for a few years now but i am looking to buy a camcorder. i dont have much money so cant afford mega bucks but as i want something that will be around for a few more years and be readily avaliable to buy the tapes etc, i would be willing to wait and save abit more if these would be off production lines in the next few years. but as you can get a fairly good one for only £150 if they were around for another 3-5 years id prob consider one of these


also whats better the dvd camcorders or the hard drive camcorders?
ive seen hard drive camcorder with 20gbs but the beauty of a dvd camcorder is that you dont run out of space you just buy more discs.

if you had the option which one would you go for?

[G]

You can always download video from a HDD camera to a computer and carry on. However the cheap HDD cameras aren't quite up to the quality of a similarly priced DV camera I believe.

DV tape will be around for a long time, so I wouldn't worry about it on that account.