I have canon hv as well several sony hdv’s. Right now we are testing the sony xdcam its a monster. My partner has 2 of the panasonic hvx200 and I will also get a hv 20/canon when they are released in eu. I am in Czech Republic and most of my broadcast work from Germany is all HDV, the cz and uk jobs are mostly dvcpro,dvcam and hdv all about equal amounts. I get alot of different formats wish there was a hdv/dvcam/dvcpro deck;). I rarely output back out to tape as my clients always want it on hard drives to drop into their systems.
The convergent designs only states HDV i did not see dv/dvcam as a option or a combined one. Miranda also makes a dv/dvcam to sdi. From the prices I have found for these in the EU (for the HDV to sdi and the dv/dvcam to SDI) gets me into the 3000eu range. So I started looking at lower end decks with sdi.