Beta SP hands down. DV is compressed right out of the gate, who wants that... not me. U can find a sweet analog capture setup for cheap nowadays from Aurora or Pinnacle Sys. that will do uncompressed capture. thats 20Mbyts per second.. not shitty 3.6 from miniDV. Also, yes.. beta is an interlaced format... and thank god because software like Magic Bullet utilizes the interlaced information to make an accurate 24p master rather than the choppy "progressive" mode on an XL1.(posted 7526 days ago)or better yet.. shoot it on 16mm... ok.. i'm cutting myself off