Let's say you were bought an HD camcorder for Christmas. The purchaser didn't know what HD was, nor that you had no means of watching anything in HD.
You don't own an HDTV and there is no sign of this changing for a while yet and the PC in my..er..your system wont playback in HD either.
this camcorder takes SDHC cards up to 32GB and has a massive 6MB internal memory. The internal memory equates to 17 seconds of HD footage, so it's practically useless without an SDHC card and of course, it didn't come with one of those.
The largest, reputable branded SDHC card you can find is a SanDisk Extreme III 8GB SDHC Memory Card With MicroMate Reader at around £60. To fully benefit from the HD goodness, you're going to either need a new HDTV (~£500) or a new HD GPU (~£200 for the one I...er...you want).
I know it's next to useless asking a bunch of geeks what they'd do, but I'm stuck and need advice.
So, would you go for the above option, or would you go to your wife and ask her if she'd let you return the HD camcorder and get a miniDV camcorder instead?