| Re: New to HD
I currently have the Sony TG3 and on the highest setting you can get 3 hours of recording on a 16GB stick, which is a lot of video (I have never managed more than 1.5 hours before I have downloaded to a PC).
Also, external Hard Drives are almost free with cornflakes now, so no problem with storage. You can also select to record at much lower settings if you want (more like SD), but remember, you will never be able to get that recording, or memory, in HD in the future.
As far as editing goes it can be a "Problem" with large AVCHD files, but not impossible. Although I now have an i7 PC I used to have a 4 year old P4 which still managed to edit the footage, albeit slowly on render, but I just let it do it while I was in bed sleeping, so no real problem.
My personal opinion is, if you can afford HD then get HD. Even if you only playback in SD now the HD footage is always there for the future.
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