You say “or less”. Depending on your requirements, consider the newly announced JVC HD100 camera when it comes out shortly. It has higher resolution ccd’s than the Varicam (even though they are physically smaller), and the ability to change lenses like the Varicam (although one suspects the 2/3″ imagers on the Varicam would gather more light and provide access to higher quality glass). The JVC camera has component outputs that send out 60 progressive frames per second (but be careful, the 60p is only for the LIVE component outputs, otherwise, the most the camera itself can RECORD is 30 highly compressed progressive frames per second). I’m sure you can find a convertor that changes the 60P analogue output to HD-SDI if that would work better with whatever switcher you end up getting. It’s kind of a “loop-hole” solution, but I see know reason why it couldn’t work given your requirements. And you could buy about 8 JVC’s for the price of one Varicam!
TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)