I've had the TM700 for about 6 months now and I must say it's a great machine. It's renewed my interest in video. The quality of the video is truly amazing, very detailed and sharp and I'm not even using it on it's higest setting as that's too difficult to edit, but more on that. The TM700 is such a portable and easy to use device, very easy to carry around with you, in fact you can get it in a decent size coat pocket. We've been away a good bit since and I've taken it with me and enjoyed using it. The only problem is now finding the time to edit the movies but I've decided that's an activity for cold winter days which we are getting close now so nearly time to start editing.
My fear when buying a HD camcorder was would I need to start upgrading all the rest of my system. Get a higher specced PC, a BluRay writer drive, a BluRay player, more hard disc, a new version of Adobe Premiere and so on which all sounded like a big spend. But no in the end I've managed. I updated my ram to 8GB and my operating system to Windows 7 64bit and I'm still using Premier CS4 and it is managing fine. I don't record at the highest level or in Progressive mode as I know Premiere won't handle this format. I also know if I get too sophisticated with too many multiple tracks in Premiere it would struggle, but I'm getting away with it. So I've put off the decision what PC to upgrade to, but I know a Core i7 would be great. The biggest issue was deciding what format and media to write the movies too, I thought I would need a BluRay disc writer, but I got around this as well. What I did was to buy an LG BluRay player that has Wifi and also a USB port that means I can add a portable hard drive to the player and watch my movies on the TV in this was. This works very well and also means I don't need to spend hours authoring and writing to BluRay discs. Now I edit my moves and write them straight from Premiere ot the different formats I want. Highest quality and size to the portable hard drive from watching on the TV and smaller more compressed formats for the web. There are some great web sites where you can upload your HD movies like YouTube and Vimeo and you will find a link on the right panel to see my videos so far.
I've even tried doing a bit of editing on the iMac with the new iLife version 11 and it was great fun creating a trailer movie using it's new feature for this and it only took 10-15 mins, you can see it here. But I sense the Mac with only 2 gb of memory would struggle with the editing of HD content but I might try it for the craic. Any way the TM700 is a great video, very portable, very versatile and easy and enjoyable to use.