that being said, I am still holding out hope someone comes out with a HD recorder with no pre/AD section....just dont see myself getting rid of my V3 anytime soon...
I'm not even sure if this is helpful info, but I'll throw it out here anyway: I by chance was talking to a certain manufacturer of southern bricks earlier this week (he answered the damn retail phone number, which I called just to order some DATs!) and asked him about this, about my current DAT-based rig and about the current HD solutions... he said there were one or two "big names" who did not want to go on record with whom he has had some discussions recently that give him hope that such a solution may be a reality in the not-too-distant future (but years, not months)...something small too.