High Def mini DV camcorders, how many minutes can you record?

Im looking for new camcorder,
Sony website says High Def 60 minutes of playback and recording
But guys at Best buy say 20-30 minutes so im just trying to find out whos right.
How much time does a tape last?

Hi Applenoobie
Whether using High Def tape or regular DV tape you will record for at least 60 minutes. Most DV tapes have grace by adding a few minutes of extra tape just in case. Where you'll find a difference is if you are taping in High Def or standard Def. High def seems to consume more power or standard def. Thus, you battery will not last a total 60 minutes unless you buy a biger battery than comes standard with most cameras. Perhaps that was what the guys at Best Buy were trying to convey.
DV tape whether high def or standard def is superior to camera that employ a hard drive, record directly to DVD, or mini DVD, or even flash based video cameras because each of these encode the video and compress it in different ways. In most cases you can get at the video, but to make it editable you'll need some kind of 3rd party application to convert it to the DV standard anyway. then you will have the issue of how to store hours upon hours of video. DV tape is the way to go.
See your previous post.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=814004&tstart=0
And Sue it looks like those fast fingers of your beat me again!
Carl

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