Video recording format question ...

I'm sanity checking how I record video for 2013. I have no issues buying a new camera if recommended. In this case I'm referring to recording "home movies" - a kid's birthday party, spring break trip, band concert, etc. My intended target is to watch on a big screen TV via Blu-ray disc, streaming to a PS3, occassional playback on a computer. My current consumer camcorder records in 1080/60p, 1080/60i, and 1080/24p. I have seen other consumer camcorders offering 1080/30p.
I will also have some footage shot on a Droid phone in 1080/30p, although that amount of video will be minor in comparison; I just mention in case of minor influence on an opinion. And by "streaming" on my PS3 I mean playback of a compatible format file via a DLNA server without transcoding on the fly. Presently the PS3 can play all the formats as far as I know. I've been shooting in 1080/60i.
What recording format would you recommend?

Even though it's not a supported bluray format, I'd record at 60p. Converting from 60p to 60i is a really easy process, each field has more data than it needs as a full frame is recorded for each one, so there is no quality lost, and having that extra data gives you a lot more options if you want to do slow mo shots.
The reason some cameras are recording at 30p even though it's not part of the bluray spec is that a 60i signal made from a 30p source is effectively 30p. It just plays each frame twice as fields, rather than two different fields as would happen with an interlaced clip.

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Hello,,
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Firstly, apologies if this has been asked on here before – if so, I couldn't find it, and might have been using the wrong search terms.
I'm getting married soon, and rather than hire a videographer to produce something we probably won't like anyway, we thought we'd go down the riskier route of asking friends and family to use their iPhones to record video on the day, and then editing all the results together ourselves.
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Sorry, there is no easy/foolproof way to do what you want. The biggest hurdle is the simple fact that by design, an iPhone will sync or manually manage iTunes content with one computer at a time. So, even if you successfully backed up each iPhone's content on a single computer, & restored such to each phone when finished recording(all possible), the content would then be erased again when these phones were connected to the computers they normally sync with. Are you sure each of these individuals can deal with this? Getting the videos off each phone won't be a problem...the problem is dealing with the other data & the deletion/restore process.
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> > discussion forums on our support website:
> >
> > www.apple.com/support
> >
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> >
I did every step in the link that i have been provided with (thank you), but I’m
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