Areas of interest and which is better, the Creative Vado HD or the Flip Ultra HD. Design - Vado - Smaller but does not stand up without a tripod. LCD Display - Ultra - Hands down the LCD us much brighter and more clear. Batteries - Ultra - Has rechargeable AA pack and will use standard AA batteries. Controls - Ultra - Almost a tie but Vado power button is hard to push. Lens - Vado - For it's wide angle lens Low Light - Vado - Both kinda suck but the Vado has less noise. However, the Ultra has more gain. Indoors - Tie - Both are very similar indoors with decent light. Outdoors - Ultra - The Flip has better color and sharper video. Colors - Ultra - More realistic colors. To me, the Vado looks over processed. Saturation - Ultra - Vado is over saturated. Sound - Ultra - Hands down winner here. The Vado sound is low and muffled. Ultra is crisp and clear. Mac Support - Ultra - I'm a Mac user, the Ultra is made with Mac user in mind. iMovie imports the .MP4 files directly. The Vado .AVI files require conversion before they can be imported into iMovie. At the end of the day, for me the Flip Ultra HD is a better buy. It's a bit more expensive, a bit larger, and does not have the wide angle lens. However, it's better video quality, far superior sound quality and the fact that it is Mac friendly totally make up for that.
A full overview and demo of the Sony Hi8 XR stereo camcorder, model CCD-TR940, circa 1998. This model basically has all of the goodies Sony ever put into an analog camcorder for the consumer market, except a flip-out LCD screen. The XR system records 440 lines of resolution on Hi8 tapes, and 280 lines on standard grade 8mm tapes (as compared to 400 and 240 lines, respectively, for non-"XR" 8mm camcorders). Sony only offered Hi8 XR camcorders for a few years (around 1998 to 2000) before they eliminated all high-end analog camcorders from their lineup, in favor of their Digital8 series.
GizmoDuck Review: Kodak Zi8 vs Creative Vado HD with splitscreen demo sample footage testing both microphones and various resolution video capture. Note: The Creative Vado HD and Kodak Zi8 have the latest firmware update as of 8/18/09. Update 10/4/2009: Kodak Store has Kodak Zi8 1080p Pocket Video Camera for 0 - 15% off auto in cart - 15% off stackable coupon KODAKGOLF09 + S/H = 9. store.kodak.com
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