Thanks guys. I think I will go with the PAL version. I've been read about the 24p pulldown hassle in another thread. A local main distributor of Canon products just called me this morning and told me HV20 is already here (in Indonesia) but I think the price is still too high, $1400. I'm going to wait a little while when it gets to retail stores. I know that PAL version is usually has higher price than NTSC but the price difference is just ridiculuos

Ian,
Do you mean 1400 Singapore dollars ?

I don't find 350 Euro is a ridicolous price difference between PAL and NTSC types.

Enrico, nope... that's in USD :) I checked BHPhotoVideo.com this morning, price is now dropped to $949.95 :)

Ian,

be careful, because B&H is in US so I think price 949.95 USD you checked is for NTSC type.