Thanks for the welcome and the nice comments.
Binary the HD video camera I have is a Sony HDR-HC1, it cost me about $2,000 CND. Sony has discontinued this camera already and released a newer model, the HDR-HC3.
The HDR-HC3 can produce the same quality HD video and can be bought for about $1,200 US.
The biggest difference between the two cameras is that the HDR-HC1 has more manual controls, and the HDR-HC3 is more of a point and shoot camera.
Just do a google search on either of these two cameras, you'll find lots of info about them.