When $200 beats $1600

[miniboyink]

If anyone wants to take nice looking video of their lights I have a solution. Today I picked up a small FlipVideo minoHD video camera and I must say I'm blown away with the results. How good is this $200 video camera? It blew my $1600 HD Canon and $3200 SD camcorders away. Better color saturation, better night resolution, and never had to focus.

Simply point and shoot and it did the rest. As I said I'm stunned. Wow is all I can say.

To see a sample go to http://holidayroadlights.com/gallery.html then click on "Test Video". The video was shot in HD, but I shrank it down to video streaming size.

The video does not have audio (yes the camera has mic) and it's only showing about 60% of the lights for my house. I also have a lot more wireframes that are just not lit and/or up. This was just raw footage for testing the camera and I was just doing some pattern generation and flashing to see it it could keep up.

Here is a link to the camera: http://www.theflip.com/en-us/

I will be posting video of all 14 house so far Friday night.

-Brad

[Roman A. Gurule Jr.]

It loads for 20 secs and then times out!

Roman

[Roman A. Gurule Jr.]

The content at "http://holidayroadlights.com/videotest.html" could not be loaded for 20 seconds.

That is what it says!

[miniboyink]

It loads for 20 secs and then times out!

Roman

I just ran it on two different computer. But IE has been know to have issues with CSS so if the original link does not work for you try http://holidayroadlights.com/videotest.html

-Brad

[Roman A. Gurule Jr.]

That is flipping awesome video. WOW!!!!! I know what I am getting!
Thanks for posting that!

[RiscIt]

Is this it?

http://www.walmart.com/Flip-Minohd-F...er/ip/10737295

[Tim Bateson]

They're on sale at Best Buy for $169.99 & free shipping.

[bdeditch]

Check Wal Mart online, we bought one for our daughter and it was much cheaper there. They are a amazing little machine.

[oldcqr]

I hope the Ultra HD is as good as the Mino - I just ordered it from Walmart online.

The Ultra has a bigger screen and 4GB more memory (2hrs vs 1hr). If you buy it from Walmart.com, you can get it for $165. For $189 it comes with 2 bonus items as a bundle (I picked the extra battery and the wall charger). Shipping was around $11, so this bundle is $30 more than the Best Buy Mino Camera Only (at $169 + free shipping).

Bundle:
http://www.walmart.com/Flip-Ultra-Hd...es/ip/11065296

[FandomFilms]

Keep an eye open on Woot. I got mine there refurbished at a huge discount on the regular price. Matter of fact they are having a woot-off today so it may come up.