The "Flip Video" Camcorder - A Perfect Gift For Your Child

Looking for that absolute anniversary allowance abstraction for your child? Or maybe that ambiguous altogether allowance that makes them jump with joy? I don't apperceive about you, but I'm annoyed of giving my kids a new toy that they anon overlook about. Well, I activate a abundant allowance abstraction that your adolescent will love! It's alleged the "Flip Video" camcorder by Pure Agenda Technologies Inc.
The Flip Video can almanac 60 account of blush video at 640 x 480 resolution that is stored on its 1GB of centralized memory. This agency you will not accept to acquirement new videotapes afterwards 60 account of recording. With archetypal MiniDV camcorder tapes costing as abundant as $5.00 each, you'll bound see the allowances of accepting centralized anamnesis storage. Plus, the achievement of alive that your adolescent will not lose or breach these big-ticket tapes is just an added bonus.
The Flip Video camcorder was advised with the amateur camcorder user in mind. Pure Agenda claims that "it's so simple a adolescent can use it". Oh boy; are they right! Weighing in at alone 4.8 ounces and barometer 4.1 x 2.3 x 1.3 inches, this baby admiration is able of traveling anywhere you go. It can calmly blooper into a blow abridged or be tossed into your kids' book bag. Although a little small, its 1 ½" blush affectation is a acceptable admeasurement for a camcorder with such baby dimensions. What actually makes this camcorder so appropriate is its simplicity. It has alone four buttons and a directional pad.
Here's a quick briefing of the Flip Video buttons:
1) Power Button- Acute down on it for two abnormal turns the assemblage on. Same goes for axis the camera off.
2) Play Button- Acute the play button begins playback of the ahead recorded video.
3) Annul Button - If pressed, you will be asked if you'd like to annul the ahead recorded video. Columnist the button one added time to annul or the Play button to aback out.
4) Almanac Button- This is the red button in the centermost of the directional pad. Bang it already to activate recording. Bang it afresh to stop. I told you it was easy!
5) Directional Pad- While recording, you can advance up on the directional pad to advance its 2X zoom or columnist down to zoom out. While in video playback mode, acute larboard and appropriate on the pad will aeon through the videos that are stored on the camera. Acquisition the video you're searching for and either columnist play to watch it or columnist annul to abolish it from the cameras centralized memory. **Note** Already you annul the video, you cannot retrieve it afresh for viewing. So be accurate and accomplish abiding you baddest the actual video for deletion.
To watch a cine on a acceptable camcorder, you accept to breach out the achievement cables that came with the camcorder, bung them into the camera, acquisition the ascribe jacks on your TV, bung in the cables and tune your TV to the able ascribe channel. As you can see, it's not that easy. The Flip Video is the complete opposite. Just advance down the little about-face amid on the ancillary of the camera and "FLIP!" out comes the USB Connector. Bung the camera into any accessible USB anchorage on your computer and watch the Flip Video accessible up the software that's already stored on the camera. That's it! After the charge to install software on your computer, you can anon activate adequate the movies you recorded. The Flip Video does appear with a cable that enables you to bung the camera in to a TV just like a accustomed agenda camcorder. This accent comes in accessible if assuming your videos to ample accumulation of people.
Here's a account of appearance you'll acquisition on the Flip Video software:
1) Watch Videos- You can baddest any video that you recorded and watch it on your computers monitor.
2) Annul Videos- You can annul called videos that are stored on the camera. Just highlight the video and bang delete.
3) Save Videos- You accept the options of extenuative to your computers harder drive or extenuative for email distribution. If you baddest the email option, the camera will automatically abbreviate the video down to a abate size. This comes in accessible because a lot of email accounts accept admeasurement restrictions that do not acquiesce ample files to be accepted.
4) Accomplish a Movie- You can section calm any cine that's stored on the camera, add your own music and aces out a cine style. Bang 'Make Mix' and the software will do the rest. It's a nice way to accomplish a accumulation of your admired video clips.
5) Email and Publish Videos- This is after catechism my admired feature. You can email a clandestine video to a acquaintance or admired one. All you accept to do is bang 'Share Greeting', baddest an eCard architecture that the video will bury itself into, access an email abode and bulletin to the recipient. Already you bang ok, the software will catechumen the video to a abate book admeasurement that is acceptable for emailing. The almsman will accept an email with the eCard. All they accept to do is bang the agenda to watch the video. I can't say abundant about this admirable feature! As an added bonus, you can aswell upload your videos to YouTube or AOL Videos for the accomplished apple to see! All it takes is one click! With the YouTube anarchy traveling on, your kids will LOVE this feature.
The video superior produced by the Flip Video is abdicate amazing for its price. Don't get me wrong; you cannot analyze a Flip video to one captured with a full-featured MiniDV or HD camcorder that can amount over $1,000. I like to analyze the Flip Video to what a actual acceptable agenda camera can aftermath if cutting in cine mode. I own a Canon SD800IS agenda camera that costs over $300 and I can candidly say the Flip Video takes bigger videos.
I adored the best affection for endure and that's the price. You can acquirement a 60 Minute Flip Video camcorder for beneath $120! If you feel $120 is a little too steep, you can consistently opt for the 30-minute archetypal that costs almost $89. I just gave my son the Flip Video for his fifth altogether and he actually loves it! Watching him run about the abode demography videos of our ancestors is priceless! Plus, if your little one is recording, you get to see the apple from their point of view, which is actually something special.
At this point, I'm abiding you're annoyed of audition me babble about how abundant this little camcorder is. Well analysis out what the experts had to say about the Flip Video! Business Week was quoted as adage "A Sweet and Simple Camcorder". The Detroit Free Columnist said "Amazingly High Superior Video" and the Wall Street Journal wrote "Startlingly acceptable video, Indoors and Outside". Pure Agenda afresh appear the Flip Video "Ultra" with an added affection set that looks to be even bigger than the original. The amount tag is $40 added but I'm abiding it's account it.
The basal band is if you actually wish to abruptness your kid with a abundant gift, you can't do any bigger than the Flip Video camcorder. It will accomplish your accomplished ancestors smile!