The soon-to-be-released Canon HF10, and both Panasonic's HDC-HS9 and SD9

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The first true HD camcorders are reaching the market in the consumer category. Possibly the first true HD camcorders will be announced at NAB in April for the prosumer category.

Note that you may not get true HD off the recorded media with some these camcorders, depending on compression and the use of tape storage. Some of these camcorders may allow you to record true HD onto a Firestore device, if they have the ports available.

I'm kinda in hurry, and didn't have time to check all of the specs on all the camcorders. I'll leave that to you. Caveat emptor!

I was all excited about Hi-Def coming to the consumer level until I heard of one (i don't remember which) that records in 1920x1080, but outputs at a lesser rate. What!!!!! I see what you mean, Chuck, about knowing the true specs of these new devices. I most definitely will look before I leap.