A Tapeless Digital Camcorder For Your Pocket

spullara writes "I've been waiting a long time for a small, tapeless, easy to use digital camcorder. Tapes wear out, they require playback in realtime, and make producing ad hoc movies time consuming. Without these types of recorders you can forget about iVideoPodcasting. I found the Fisher FVD-C1 at an Apple Store last week and it was amazing, but it turns out there is a better one being imported from Japan, the Xacti DMX-C4 thats nearly identical, but better. You can read my review of it here (I have no association with any of these businesses). Wouldn't it be great if one of these devices had WiMAX to upload directly to the internet?"

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WiMax?

[nev4]

"Wouldn't it be great if one of these devices had WiMAX to upload directly to the internet?"

Yes, because my local electric car recharging station now has a WiMax hotspot...

I was going to write something sarcastic too.

[Anonymous Coward]

and then I considered the possibilities for pornography. The revolution is truly nigh.

ivideopodcasting?

[DrHyde]

Anyone using such a horrible made-up word should be shot. If you want long compound words, German is --> that way.

Re:FUCK YOU TIMOTHY

[Anonymous Coward]

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Nice one, dipshit.

Tape too slow? No!

[Bazman]

This guy is impatient. He's got a whole 13 years to edit together the baby videos to make the perfect embarrass-my-teenage-kid movie.

Re:FUCK YOU TIMOTHY

[Anonymous Coward]

Haha, this is truly hilarious. ROLAND PIQUEPAILLE. Ok so either this guy's account is hacked, or he's a moron. I vote for the latter.

Re:All /.ers are dying to know

[cherokkester]

Whatever you do, don't film it with THIS camera. Get a professional quality one with Hi-Speed USB 2.0 transfer technology.

Direct upload

[daBass]

"Wouldn't it be great if one of these devices had WiMAX to upload directly to the internet?"

No, it would not. Why would you want to make anyone sit through your hours of uneditted footage?

If only owners of video cameras (and those uploading _all_ their digital photos to an online gallery) learned to edit what they capture before submitting it to their friends the world would be a lot less violent place...

Re:Direct upload

[panurge]

Absolutely.

When tape video cameras first emerged at reasonable prices, wedding photographers were interested but worried that their profit margin would be eroded by the editing cost of getting 3 hours of footage down to the 10 mins that a third party would actually watch. But they soon discovered that Joe Public is so uncritical of seeing his own picture that he actually wanted the unedited 3 hours. Existing video cameras are basically weapons of mass boredom, and on bad days I think that a license should be required before anyone is allowed to distribute thr results beyond the immediate family.

Yes, I'm feeling crabby. But at least I'm agreeing with someone.