Help me pic a new digital camera

[zman]

Price range 0-$1000.

Features.

• Compact prefered, but not necessary.
• Want to take 1-2 minute video clips with great resolution. Must be in a format where I can burn DVD's with the Window's Vista DVD program. I believe its avi and possibly mpg formats. Camcorder is a pain in the butt and I don't like taking long movies anyways. This will replace the camcorder.
• Need to shoot 3 fps or more for sports pictures. Daughters big in sports and want to get great motion shots.
• Easy to use. Want a point and click feature for people other than me that use it as well as adjustability for me.
• Somethng without any lag time when you push the button for a "quick shot"

I have had Kodak and Cannon in the past. I prefer the Kodak because it's simpler menu structure, unfortuneatly the video on Kodak's it Quicktime so that rules them out.

zman

[DanB98TJ]

I have an older version of this (mine is only a 5 megapixel, 10x zoom):

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Sony-...oductDetail.do

It works really well for action shots, and takes decent videos. I haven't tried to burn them onto DVDs (no DVD burner), but IIRC it is an .mpg format.

Overall, I'm really happy with the camera, especially the zoom. If I were better at manually adjusting the different settings I would be even more impressed, but since I seldom take photos using the manual settings I haven't gotten used to that area yet.

[TObject]

I know some great photo cameras under $1000, and I know some great video cameras under $1000. Sorry, I don't know anything that would combine the two and work as well.