If I was buying I'd buy one of the new ones with the hard drives in them. No more tapes, mini DVDs etc. I bought the mini DVD camcorder and it does OK for stuff but I was hoping the price of the mini DVD-Rs would go down in price but they really haven't. My other option is use the DVD-Ram then move it to my computer and to a regular DVD or find a DVD player that accepts DVD-RAM. I only have one of those and it's upstairs in my bedroom.

Do a google on camcorder reviews and you should find a bunch also.