Hey guys,

I have finally decided to take the plunge and get an HD Camcorder. Since I have had very good luck with the DCR series I am sticing with Sony.
My concern is that when I bought the DCR, my older laptop wasnt "fast" enough to download and process the video and I had to shell out $1100 to buy a dual core computer with enough memory and fast enough Video card (ATI). My older computer was dropping frames and freezing up. The "new" computer has been fine for downloading video off the MiniDv.
Now, with HD, we are talking about a lot more data being downloaded and processed, I am wondering if I wil have to buy another "fast" computer that can process and burn HD videos and can burn it on a regular DVD, or even Blue-ray DVD, although BR media is very expensive.

Also, what are most of you guys doing to back up your videos, leaving them on computer hard drive?

Hi. Check the Sony VRD-MC6 external DVD burner. No need a PC for transfering videos to DVD.