As for DVD Camcorders --
They're pretty much okay. I remember dropping one dvd on the floor tapos nasipa ng guest... so I had to chase it. Puro gasgas. Washed it down and ... okay pa rin yung data sa loob. Another nice thing is once you finalize a disc, you're pretty much ready to play it on a standard DVD player (yun nga lang, you'll prolly want to edit the data on your PC first).


Now for my gripes:
Those DVDs only last for 25 frikkin minutes! If you're in your kid's party and taking a video, you're going to be swapping DVDs like machine gun clips in a gunfight. Pero ...it's just a minor annoyance since you're not really going to shoot continuously anyway.

They're bulky compared to the HDD camcorders. (Nandoon yung umbok ng disc.)