Nowadays, most HD cam store film in AVCHD format. And that brings an elbow grease for the computer to unzip them because of the lacking function or not proper editor software. But JVC Everio GZ-HD40 store film in AVCHD & MPEG2 formats at the same time to solve this problem.
With its 1/3" CMOS 2.68 Megapixel image sensor, 120GB HDD, support USB, TV-out & HDMI output, makes it different from others. Price: US$1300