I suppose it comes down to what your long term intentions are? The HD format is great and I'm sure we'll all be watching it in a few years time. Can you see any other benefits other than the obvious between one format and the other? I used was it a DY5000 or DV5000 I can't remember as my head is still spinning from all the controls on it at the start of the year, it was like sitting in the cockpit of a Russian military aircraft and being told to fly the thing (scary).

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