A strange Flip Video remote has been found on the FCC website, whose existence alone seems to indicate Flip Video has something new coming out. I mean, you don’t really need a remote control for a pocket camcorder, right? However, you do need a remote for, say, a set-top box. Read More
Amazon’s head of consumer electronics cautions: Don’t let the marketing speak convince you that the Xbox 360 or latest Motorola set-top box is truly “excellent.”
Paul Ryder, who’s in charge of CE at Amazon, thinks so-called convergence devices fall into one of two categories: the “capable”, like the 360—good enough, but often too hard to fully exploit for the average person—and the excellent, those that work perfectly without any headaches. What makes the excellent list?
• The EyeFi. A 2GB SD card with a built-in Wi-Fi antenna. Instantly, and easily, upload digital photos and video straight from your camera.
• Slingbox. Your TV shows wherever you go. I take it you’ve heard of it before.
We’ve seen disposable or limited use camcorders before, but Pure Digital, the workhouse behind the el cheapo plastic video recorders, is promising us something new with its Flip Video cams.
While the prices are dropping and the resolutions rising on HD camcorders, these guys are going the other way, rolling out a bare-bones SD cam with TV-out features and software that allows for easy DVD creation from the source vid. What’s really getting attention is the software package includes tools to make it “as easy as possible” to upload to video sharing sites like YouTube. The cameras themselves are very similar to earlier offerings from Pure Digital, but the included suite of apps allows you to optimize and upload to your video sharing account without even opening a Web browser. Not sure if we’d use it, but grandmas will like it. By stopping by Walgreens, you can record and share your son’s entire spelling bee with the world, which is just what we were hoping for.
Flip Video [via Electonista]
