Video and Movie topics

I have been hunting around online for an inexpensive home video camera.  One thing I find striking is that none of the ads seem to say anything about tripods.  Is a screw hole on the bottom of a camera for ...

OK, I'm still trying to think through which video camera to get. I now understand that tape will generally have better quality because the video on tape isn't compressed as much as on a hard drive or DVD camera. ...