Some people have been sucessfull with dubbing sony HDV footage to D-VHS but you have to lower the bit rate to 19.7 megabits per secound for it to work good.

Well I picked up an FX1 from B&H...haven't tried anything yet- except for a battery charge. I really did not want to go with interlaced video- but since I had bad luck with the JVC's "Component Video cable" and had to return the GRHD1 -I really had no choice but the FX1....would have loved to have gotten the JVC HD1000 but it's outta my price range (just a hobbyist.)

PS- I really didn't like the $399 look of the HC1- it looks too "consumer- low end" for my tastes and would likely be a hard sell sometime down the road- so the HC1 wasn't an option. I know it produces 90% of the video quality the FX1 captures- but it's form factor was just too "plain" for me.