Canon iVIS HF10

I am still in Australia at the moment and as I am fixing my car in order to sell it, asking around about freight services to send my things back to Indonesia, and doing a bit of other shoppings as well, I bought myself a High Definition Camcorder. This is my first Hi Def camcorder, as I have been looking around and did not get what I wanted and especially with the price that I can afford. The last time I checked, the good camcorders are only the Sony ones in the market and my experience with Sony Handycams has not been great, I am reluctant to buy another Sony Handycam/Camcorder especially that the ones I have cannot produce images very well in low light and the last time I checked, the video images are not bright enough/too greyish for me, and as I mentioned, the price is very high for the 1080 resolution.
Well, what I recently found is this Canon iVIS HF10, which just came out last April in the US, which uses 16GB internal memory, and you can also add additional SDHC card which is up to 16GB as well at the moment.
As you probably can see from the image, the Camcorder is very simple and uses very little mechanicals that move, which could result in less prone to faults and other speed advantages as well.
This camcorder has maximum resolution of 1920x1080, whereas at least some of the Sony ones are a maximum of 1440x1080. I tend to think that Canon is better than Sony as well in terms of low light video and better color captures as I have used Canon products before, and I know Canon has very good technicals in these area. And so far, my assumptions have been correct.
This camera has also been announced as No. 1 camcorder in Japan, well, I just hope that the product is as good as the reputation.
I have found out also that you can copy and burn the resulting video AVCHD (the original .m2ts) files to any DVDs, which means that there is no quality reduction, and play the AVCHD files on my PS3. I don't know if other BluRay players can play this kind of files but certainly PS3 can. But of course, regular DVD players cannot play this .m2ts format. This is a great thing, because I can just copy the original without any loss of resolutions, and it does not require any change of format, not even change of the file extension .m2ts and play the files on PS3.
The price is about AUD$1550 in the most competitive camera shop in Brisbane, but I bought from eBay for just AUD$1150. I believe that I would get the same price if I buy from Indonesia too, because the price in eBay usually is good, it's just that sometimes it is a bit risky if you buy from eBay if the seller is unfortunately a fraud.
I am very lucky that I spent that much money and yet I still get the product.
I also bought an additional BP-819 battery which can last for about 3 hours for each full recharge. I need this, as the standard battery can only last for maximum of 90 minutes. The other thing that I bought is also a Sandisk SDHC 16GB class 4 card, and so far both items have worked with no problems at all.
The quality of the videos are amazing with my PT-AX200E projector, although I thought that the audio quality is not as crisp as it should, but I could be mistaken. So far a few tests in a quiet area resulted a good audio quality for this Canon iVIS HF10.
iVIS is the name for the Japanese market, and this product comes with 2 languages which are Japanese and English, and the format is NTSC. The international version, VIXIA, can probably be both PAL and NTSC but so far this NTSC camcorder did not have any problems with any players that I have including my computer and my home theatre projector system as well as my old conventional TV.
It's just so ridiculous how small and simple the camcorder is and then how huge and amazingly detailed and high speed the resulting video is shown by the projector. It's insane.