I found this interesting article on a new professional level camera.

Among its features are support for:
1. miniDV
2. DV
3. 24p directly via Firewire
4. broad range of interchangable lenses
5. Compact Flash

http://studiodaily.com/main/news/8768.html

Enjoy.

Now I find it. This appears to be the same camera talked about here:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=103098

I just posted the link until I realized that you found it.

http://www.sonybiz.net/biz/view/ShowContent.action?site=biz_en_GB&contentId=1193315635243

Official news page along with news for the new HVR-Z1 upgrade, the Z7 (Sony is getting more and more predictable with their product names...)

edit: just noticed your post is for the "U" version...the official news is from Sony UK