You go buy a new camcorder - with SD card recording and mini-dv recording. The camcorder is great - recoding to SD card is a little low quality but the mini-dv is great. The odd thing is that is comes with all cables - including a usb cable - but it doesn't have a firewire cable and firewire is the only real way to transfer the mini-dv content to the computer directly. So why don't they supply the cable?