Looking for a good camcorder under $800?

Looking for a good prosumer Camcorder but not too pricey?

• Hey there, My friends and I are going to start a high-quality web show for reviewing video games. We are looking for a prosumer camcorder that shoots high-end video. What would you recommend for under 800$?

• Answer:

  JVC Everio GZHD7 would offer a high level of manual controls since we first spent some time with the HD7 at CES in January. The big question has been whether the camcorder would perform up to its billing. The HD7 records video using a new flavor of MPEG-2 compression that wanders as high as 30 Mbps in FHD ("Full HD" 1920 x 1080) mode. That led us to wonder whether that venerable HDV format had finally met its match. As it turns out, video performance is not the reason to buy the JVC GZ-HD7 – but it remains one of the year’s most intriguing models.