Sanyo has just released a sub-$1000 consumer pocket HD camera. Doesn’t have any indie shooting features, its purely a consumer pocket cam. Like my dream cam HVX200 - this one is tapeless solid state memory cam. Die tape Die!.

But it has successfully hit the magic under $1000 price tag - heck its not even sub $1000 - its only $799. In comparison the cheapest single chip Sony HD cam is around $1,700.