High Definition Content. Making the leap?

[lorsha]

I'm going to be shooting a lot of footage in the next year for a new site my hubby and I are going to be working on, and I was thinking maybe we should get a HD video camera.

We spent a few hours researching them today, and found that suprisingly the $1500.00 Sony HDV 1080i handycam appears to be as good as most of the 5k + ones.

Few questions for you gurus.

Just how big is HD movies in adult these days? I am assuming that in the next several years that HD is going to slowly become the new standard, so I figured we should start shooting in that format now. Nice feature to is that the HD footage, can still be converted to regular DV standard.

Next question. Just how much more BW does this use? Right now my average clip of about 5 minutes is 30mb. Just how much will that jump in HD footage.

It's a no brainer that an HD site will sell better a few years from now, but what about now?

I know questions......many questions.......