I hate wasting energy on the lsd screens, thought I'd ask here for a recomendation. I use to have a panasonic mini dv gs35 that i loved, but it fried at a show when it overheated. The temperature was about 106, and high humidity. What I liked about it was it could be connected to a computer and record at the same time, allowing the comp to stream/ or record a backup video. Don't really know what's out there nowadays.