Camcorder recommendations?

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Originally Posted by Cleo

By the time you knock it down to a mpeg-1 for the web you have thrown away most of the info but the widescreen is still nice and you do end up with 1080 master tapes to be used in the future.

I render everything on WMV with Cleaner and it looks great with virtually no customer complaints. But you are so right about the masters. Who knows where the medium will be in three years. I look at some of my original stills on old Olympus cameras in 1998 and they are useless today. I think you should always use the very best capture medium available because it will pay off someday.