Hm ... seems that the idea of steping up to full HD has to be scaled down a bit... When looking at camera spec's, I guess that a 1080 camera meens 1440x1080, and not 1920x1080 (for approx $200 cameras (in Norway)).

But Jim, although you think that HDV is a bad codec, it will be my only option if I want to continue editing on PP 2.0, right?

What does "BR" mean?

How much diskspace is needed for 1 hour HDV, and should the disk be in RAID (striping)? When editing, is it possible to edit at a lower resolution to gain more speed during editing? Cuz I gues editing will take some more time when dealing with HDV an not DV.