Surely that's not true... If you have a standard mini dv camera and you make a movie of approx 300megs you compress it (for arguments sake) to 10 times it's original quality and get a movie that is now 30megs and 10 times poorer quality. However, with high definition you start of with the same movie but obviously it is much better quality, we'll say 600megs, you then reduce by 10 times and end up at 60megs and 10 times poorer quality HOWEVER although it is poorer quality through compression you have to bear in mind that you won't be compressing it down to the same quality as a mini dv... that's like buying an apple and cutting it in half and throwing half away because it's bigger than all the rest... it's wasteful.
So although you will be compressing the quality will still be much better, and to be honest im on 56gay at the moment and I simply do not bother downloading videos... So it won't matter much anyhow. When I have BB i'm not gonna mind waiting longer for a HD, quite the contrary - I would prefer it :P
Any help? p.s. all the figures I used were off the top of my head, so no smart arses please :D
Will you be selling your old camera then dear chap? What model/make is it?
Ta, Sam