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If you’ve only ever watched your Flip Cams on your computer, or shared them via Facebook or on the Flip Camcorder then you are in for a great new experience with the FlipShare TV.

Like Flip Video camcorders, FlipShare TV is incredibly easy to use. There’s no confusing setup or configuration required. It’s as easy as this; download your videos to your FlipShare library, connect the TV Connector cables, plug in the USB Key to your computer, pick up the Remote Control that’s supplied and start watching your videos on the big screen. You can browse and play back all your library content.

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No wires, no separate recorder, no separate microphone, a tiny 4 ounces. Simply mount the ContourHD where you want to capture the action and go.

Whether it’s mounted it on the side of a skateboard, on the rear foot peg on your street bike or on your helmet as you snowboard, you’ll hardly notice its presence.

Even though the video is possibly not quite real HD, it’s still leagues (and I mean LEAGUES) ahead of anything that is out there for this amount of money (and most of the stuff that costs at least twice as much… ). If you’ve been disappointed in the quality of video of helmet cam tried until now, this device is worth every penny. Buy this camcorder as soon as you can!

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The Samsung SMX-C10 Touch of Color Camcorder with 10x Optical Zoom (Red) is ideal for those on the go, is light as a feather and tiny. It fits comfortably in the hand or easy to slip into a pocket. The angled lens takes a little getting used to, but really saves on wrist lock as it’s easy to pan and scan at a comfortable angle. Out of the box the battery is very fast to charge, only taking around 30 minutes for first charge.

The zoom is fantastic, even with recording action shots the focus is pretty hard to mess up. and the time delay recording and animated thumbnails are really fun to play with.

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The Kodak Zi6 HD Pocket Video Camera has picked up on the success of the Flip series of small, carry in your pocket video cameras. The Zi6 has made some significant improvements in this area however. In all it’s a wonderful little video camera that’s easy to fit in your pocket and use at all times you want to capture what’s happening now.

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For a full featured HD Camcorder, it’s hard to go past the Panasonic HDC-TM10K Hard Drive Full HD Camcorder. Easy to use, the video can be transferred to the computer and edited with standard movie editing software. It’s nice and light, only weighing around 250g so it doesn’t make your hands ache when holding it up.

Because it records to both the in-built memory and SD Card you know you aren’t going to lose any data. As with most Panasonic camcorders, the HDC-TM10 features the iA (Intelligent Auto) function, which automatically sets the most suitable Scene mode according to shooting conditions.

So it’s really hard to go wrong with this camcorder, it fixes most lighting and movement problems automatically without you having to be too careful.  The zoom is digital and Panasonic’s technology takes out most of the blurring that you get when you try to zoom too far.
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