Im looking forward to buy a Camera or device that records good video quality and sound quality because i want to record during concerts and gigs. I Also want to record a few band practices. What do you guys recommend? My budget is anything thats $200 and down. Thank you.
Honestly, for $200 I’d opt for a good digital audio recorder, one designed for music such as these by Olympus:
http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/cpg_voicerecorders.asp?section=pcm
Digital video in that price range is poor at best (Yes, even HD), and the audio is highly compressed and even worse than the video. If you can up your budget to $250, the best audio and video you can get is Canon’s ZR960 MiniDab tape camera.
Seems counter intuitive, but the quality of MiniDv exceeds even high end HD cameras, and MiniDab uses uncompressed audio with better than CD quality.