You'll have to wait at least a year or two. It's all vaporware (a word I just learned about!).

heath

I am the only person that sees no photos of the camcorder in the links?

Corey, this thread is pretty dated.

Here is a photo of the prototype Sony HDV

Click here

Thanks, Tommy!

It's a prototype (or vaporware) that is 3 chips! YOWZA! Oh, and did I mention full manual controls?

But it's rumored to be native 4:3...As my friend said, have to protect the big Sony HD cameras somehow...

heath

The original posts regarding 4:3 and 16:9 and HDV have been
split off into a new thread:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...threadid=30264