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This is the war diddy camera! In addition, Kodak Zi6 £ 130, the newer of the two - the other is £ 120 Flip Mino (the new little brothers and sisters of the Flip Ultra) - can be much more: as well as to the extent two high-definition resolution, it may also stills. A to Zi6. The Flip Mino, but the values of friendliness. It is a bit smaller and lighter than the Zi6, and is conveniently located in the hand. He has only three buttons: power, USB version (from above), and large, bright red button that starts and stops recording. If it is, small lights under the rear of the worksheet zoom in and out, and forward, delete, and play / pause. There is a small speaker for playback, a red light (on the aim of this page), if the recording and a TV out-take. On display on the screen tells you how much recording time on the rechargeable batteries are sealed inside. On the base is one foot female. Is this really. Like the movies, you’ll see that much time. VGA (640×480) quality, in AVI format (which can be an obstacle for Mac users: VLC videolan.org free to play, or there are software reading in the Mino). Now, go and a 60-minute film. In contrast, the Zi6 provides many features. In addition, it has the minimum of keys - one for power, another in his pop-USB connector, and the red end of the joystick to record, zoom in / out, and terminating the procedure: HD (ie, 1280×720 pixels), HD60 (60 frames per second) or boring alembics VGA (640×480). There is also a macro distance, and two outputs: TV-out (default Composite) and “HD”. They all want? The Zi6, most of them. But it can be a source, if you click on the wrong target, or images, if you wish, Point-and-shoot. And he can not say how long the registration is left, because the use of different resolutions. A to Mino. The Zi6 save in Apple Quicktime. Mov format that could be a problem for users of Windows, but there is the display software. A key difference: you have to improve the Zi6 is poor onboard memory with an SD card, raising the total cost. The batteries are removable (a charger is supplied), which is good: when they die, you can replace it. If the Mino is dead, what will you do? Throw away and buy a new one, without doubt. End? Same.

I have a new piece of play the most popular: The Neuros OSD technology, a field the scart or component video output of your DVD or Sky / Sky + / Freeview box or video recorder and a USB output or network drive, and all types of video or audio content from a USB or network drive to a TV. And you can for access to sources, while the output to a TV.

Wait, we can say - I said, the output of a DVD and place it on a USB key or car? Yes, I have: it creates an MPEG-4, about 1 GB per hour in its highest resolution (640×480). The DVD is you play in your DVD player. (Or almost anyone else DVD in your DVD player.) Personally, I find it good for the salvation of DVD-video, not otherwise junked (including baby videos, so that no damage Copyright there) for transmission to a digital format.

Since you already have record of your Freeview box with a DVD recorder, which is just the pressure on the borders of criminality. It seems a rash of such devices: I tried the same from Pinnacle, but did not exit, so you can not read or see what you’re shooting on the screen. In the meantime, the Archos TV +, the memory (which has no screen) and it is much to do the same work, but I have not tested.

The OSD works on Linux, but the least interesting thing. The interesting things are the beautiful smoked-interface that is laid, the TV signal it (so you can decide when to start recording), rather than by any of the alphabet soup of video formats that a UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) browser, it is possible that the contents anywhere on your home network, as their (often) updates of firmware can neurostechnology.com with some keypress, you can quickly and upstream or backwards through the content from a networked hard drive. (They are excellent for storing your movies and music). There is also the music, if you have a common library.

There is an error: it would lock on “back” a video file (temporary power was the only solution), and may desire higher resolution, but it will not be an HD signal. Also, 640×480 is surprisingly good, even on a 32 inch. £ 150 price may itch, but I think he has a great future.

The European chief of Flip Video on why Cisco bought the company, and the competition from video enabled mobile phones. Plus how precision made headphones are much better with your tech gear.
Technology editor Charles Arthur is in the driving seat for this week’s programme – everyone else on the Tech Weekly team is either living it up, having babies, or studying. Someone has to do all the work …

In this podcast, Charles meets Ray Sangster, the Europe, Middle East and Africa chief of Flip Video – the company that makes the iPod-sized video cameras. Ray discusses why Cisco Systems wanted to buy the company, and the competition Flip has from video-enabled mobile phones such as the iPhone 3GS.

We also hear from James Strong, the founder of Atomic Floyd – maker of high-specification headphones. Charles hears how headphones are often the forgotten element when people buy expensive gadgets, and why their precision earpieces are stainless steel (to do with sound leakage and size, apparently).

All this, and Bobbie Johnson brings us this week’s tech news from his holiday lilo. Possibly.