Sure, there were all those cool HDD camcorders shown at CES this year, but sometimes you have to get back to basics. Like JVCs line of five MiniDV camcorders, all of them are a bit easier to use, with ...

I have always wanted one to film special occasions or when friends are over. I was looking for a camcorder with firewire support so that I could burn the movies to cd and watch them on my DVD player ...

Some (all?) DV camcorders transfer the raw DV data over Firewire but recompress the video when tranferring over USB. DV camcorders are really meant to be used with Firewire.