I've been using my TRV900 to shoot indoor sports for several years. I'm really pleased with the performance, including under marginal indoor lighting and fast action. Lately, the firewire connection is super finicky that I have to fiddle with it a bunch. It's something wrong at the camera end, that I have to tug and hold it at just the right spot to get the camera recognized. Too much trouble!

SO, here's the big question. Do I replace the old TRV900 with one of the newer breed or continue shooting with the old camera and buy a cheap camera just to transfer the tapes to my PC? Will I loose any performance buying a cheap camera for transfer? THanks for the help!

Hi this is a great question. This firewire question comes up over and over and frankly speaking Sony should fix it for free but won't.
I have same question, do you lose performance when you transfer, and will it look as good on cheap camcorder ? If it will ( and I certainly am not sure of that because if true why need for expensive decks?) then that solution solves the problem
I hope someone can answer that
The next question comes
Is how much better is hd quality then this on hd? Does hd look good on computer (maybe not as good?) and does this TRV900 just look good on hd?