i am not much into video anymore but i know that i always hated tapes. tapes are so cumbersome. you always have to wait for winding back and forth and capturing only works in realtime.

i would go for a harddisk or flash memory. what i don't like about the current hd consumer cameras is that they still only work in interlaced mode. i don't get it. no new hd tv works like that. crts are gone.