what is the best camcorder for the money?

ok so you want an hd camcorder, nothing that will record for less than 3 hours, any flash drive camcorder will do that and any HDD camcorder. best value that depends on one inportant thing how much do you want to spend, less than 100 less than 500 1000 5000, the choice is yours. a little more information will help.

do you want to just play directly from the camcorder to the tv or do you want to edit the video and put it on dvd. if its just to be shown from the camera to the tv then there is not a problem, if you want to edit the video then the more you compress the video (get more onto the media) then you are going to have problems editing the video on a low performance pc, if you want to put it onto a disk then you will need to use Blue Ray, then you will need a player (unless you already have one)

the media you record onto is price releted, flash dive camcorders start a lot cheaper then HDD, Flash drive is more reliable, then HDD. Quality of the video I think is better.

Good luck

RR

You want HD. You want something that has an external mic input so you can use a good shotgun mic. The only consumer camcorder with mic jacks in all models is Canon. There are one or two others from Sony/JVC/Panasonic probably as well.

This is a fine camera: http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=M...