HDV / HD for the Masses

"...By the time HDV camcorders come down to a price point that consumers won't balk at, say sub-$1000, computer processing power should be at a point where it won't be so challenging to edit HDV on a home computer."

Since DV is buzzing about in the ether lately, I thought I'd suggest this good overview article - it includes a handy chart from Adobe covering "the varying flavors of DV and that of HDV".