The time is here and I finally made the jump into High Definition (HD) home videos with the purchase of Canon's first (I believe) HD camcorder, the HV10.  I've been dreaming of buying a HD camcorder for almost 2 years now.  The price drop to around $1,000 coupled with the redcution in size of the camcorder to fit in your palm made this purchase a no-brainer for me.

My reasoning is simple.  I like to take a lot of home videos and (unlike many people I know) actually watch them quite often.  We watch the home movies together as a family on our big screen TV in our family room.  The problem is that when you blow up a standard definition resolution video on a reasonably sized TV, the picture quality leaves much to be desired.  There was some discussion about this in the comments of the Transferring Digital Video to a PC article that I wrote.

The Canon HV-10 should arrive some time today.  I'm very anxious to see what the video quality looks like on my TV after I take some videos.   My next post will be my review and thoughts of the device after I've used it a little.

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