Will iMovie Keep Up with New Camcorder Technology?

I've been looking at camcorders recently since my Canon ZR60 broke on me due to a failed tape transport.
There seems to be a lot of camcorders with either DVD or hard drive storage instead of using tape. The HD camcorders are recording using Mpeg and AVCHD which iMovie doesn't work with currently.
I guess we can only speculate Apple will out with a new version of iMovie/iDVD in January.

"..The HD camcorders are recording using Mpeg and AVCHD which iMovie doesn't work with currently.."
Sony HDV - tape-based - camcorders (and JVC ones, too, but I'd stick with Sony) are supported by (..i.e; can be used with..) iMovie HD. In fact iMovie HD was introduced at the MacWorld show the other year by a Sony-wielding Steve Jobs and a Sony man.
HDV Mpeg works fine with iMovie HD, as long as you have a fast Mac (..G5, preferably multi-processor, or Intel-based..) and can be used to make terrific HD projects. If you use Apple's DVD Studio Pro, the HD footage from iMovie can be burned onto a normal data DVD as hi-res HD video footage and can be played on your Mac as HD video (..but those discs won't play as HD on any kind of standalone DVD Player).
You can also export edited HD footage from iMovie HD back to a tape in an HDV camcorder, plug the camcorder into a component socket on an HDTV, and watch glorious HD footage which has been edited in iMovie HD.
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