HD Deck Recommendations?

[Tammany]

Hi
I just finished shooting a documentary and I am looking for any HD Deck recommendations so we can start digitizing our tapes. We shot on a Canon XHA1 and are editing with Final Cut. We used the minidv HD tapes. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

[A n d r e w]

What's an XH-A1 these days, £2000? A Sony HDV deck, £1000? Yikes. Maybe you can scrape together the other (mere) grand and get another XH-A1.

Then again, the mech in the deck will take more abuse (actually this is debatable: some say the mechanisms are identical to those in cameras, the advantage of decks being they're a different shape than a camera and therefore easier to use as a deck, shuttling back and forth and what not). There may well be less-expensive options than the Sony HDV Walkman, too - anyone know of any?

Best,
Andrew.


EDIT: By the way, I'm not trying to teach you how to suck eggs or anything, but be careful if you're trawling around for a 2nd-hand deck: decks for the old HDV spec (so-called "HDV1" or 720) won't play HDV2 (1080) unless they're designed to do so (e.g. an HDV2-specced deck that is backwards-compatible with HDV1).

Innit.

[senu]

I would personally get a HDV camcorder; New, second hand or even newish older model
Similar functionality 1/2 to 1/3 the cost.. and can still shoot videos

[rhubarbe]

HV10, if you can find one for £300 - £350.

http://www.harrisoncameras.co.uk/pro...Productid=7101

And it makes a good backup kit...