The title may have a lot of TLAs (two and three letter acronyms,) but Infocomm republished a great look at producing a TV style show for DVD on an HDV budget.  Yes, they've got more of a budget than I do, but in the article they've got some interesting ideas on how to get the best quality out of their relatively meager budget.  For cameras, they're using the HVR-Z1U (pictured right.)  Instead of just converting their 1080i masterpiece down to 480p in software, they found the best approach to be putting it on a digibeta deck (they already had,) then using the hardware conversion found in the deck to capture it in 480p.  Definetely an interesting read for anyone producing content in HDV.