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Creative Labs Vado Pocket Video Camcorder (Silver) | 
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| Brand: Creative Labs
Category: Photography
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 722
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 7.5 x 1.4
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: VF0570-S
Model: VF0570-S
UPC: 054651159679
EAN: 0054651159679
ASIN: B0018QIOPI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Vado is thinner than a deck of cards and as light as a cell phone | | • | Never miss a moment with two hours of video capacity and one-button recording | | • | Comes with built-in USB cable and on-board software; easily edit and upload videos | | • | Large 2-inch anti-glare screen | | • | Shoot up to two hours continuously with rechargeable battery |
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Product Description
Creative Vado is a slim, lightweight pocket video cam that makes it easy to capture and share everyday life as it happens. Simply connect Vado to your PC with the flexible USB plug and the built-in software lets you save videos to your computer or post them directly to YouTube or Photobucket. Since Vado is thinner than a deck of cards and as light as a cell phone, it fits into your pocket or purse and never weighs you down. Free yourself from the hassle of the bulky camcorder bag. You'll never miss a moment, with two hours of video capacity and one-button recording that makes capturing life on video effortless. With up to two hours of video capacity, you never need tapes, CDs or extra memory cards. With a 2x zoom and excellent low-light performance, you'll get great video quality every time you press Record. Just connect Vado to your computer with the flexible USB plug and the built-in software takes over. You can transfer your videos to your computer or post them directly to YouTube or Photobucket, all at the click of a button. The rechargeable battery is removable so you can change out for a fresh one. Built-in microphone and speaker Built-in flexible USB connector TV-output (Vado Audio/Video cable available separately) Anti-flicker support for adjustment to 50Hz or 60Hz Easy-to-use with great video quality at the touch of a button Slim, lightweight design that fits in your pocket or purse Simple built-in software makes sharing videos on YouTube or Photobucket a snap System Requirements - Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHZ or faster, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Mac OS X version 10.4.11 or later, QuickTime with Xvid plug-in, 512MB RAM and USB Port
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
Good portable video camera with some problems. July 8, 2008
I got the Vado a week ago so I could record as much video as posible for a trip I took to L.A.
After looking at all the different options I decided to buy the Vado wich was 82.99 at the moment. I got it quickly so like a kid with a new toy I started filming everywhere I could the check out the quality in diferent situations. this is somewhat my experience.
In outdoors the Vado is absolutely great, unless its night time. the quality looks awesome and you can even record while in you are in motion or objects in motion and will appear fine in the video.
In indoors is where I found to have problems with the Vado (maybe just my unit but here goes) it seems that in bright light rooms all white objects like (shirts, even skin) seem too bright and appear like if they were wet, other than that mostly everything else looks great. if low light conditions the video looks somewhat grainy usual problem when handling black colors, also video will look darker than how the room actually was.
Ease of use, well the manual really doesnt explain very well how to use it but it is so simple that its not much of a problem, if you have a windows based PC then downloading your videos to the PC will be a breeze, since the Vado has the software already installed, this software will left you see the videos, delete them or upload to youtube or photobucket.
the camera does not capture Still pictures
The sound well, the speaker on the unit does sound very low so you probably wont be able to hear yourself on the videos if watching them on the Vado, on the PC or TV though you will be able to hear them alot better just a little lower than how loud it was when you recorded it on the vado.
A good point though is that in places where the sound is VERY HIGH, I entered a concert with the Vado and a Creative Zen, I put the Creative Zen to record (with its built in MIC) and also the vado, the ambient sound was so high that the Creative Zen could not record it properly and all I got was .. trash, while on the Vado you could clearly hear everything.
I'm happy with my Vado since I was able to record almost 3 hours of video without having to buy many tapes or dvds (like you do with normal video camera) and I only had to recharge the battery once. but like other people have said this camera is not supposed to replace the other more costly cameras. but it is still a good, light, cheap camera.
Tiny, Light, and pretty darn good! July 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
For such an inexpensive device, this does very well. I was very happy with the recording time, battery life, video and sound quality, and how easy it was to use.
One thing that really stood out for me was that the device includes the necessary codecs to play your videos on any Windows computer. I also liked how the device has its own built-in USB connection, and thus I don't have to lug around another cable.
The device is amazingly light, probably lighter than my BlueTooth headset.
There are a few shortcomings that I think people should know:
1) If you're not using a Windows XP/Vista machine, I don't know how well this will work for you (if at all). Its videos might have difficulty playing in photo frames, too.
2) For extended vacations, you'll need to bring a laptop along to charge the device and offload your video. The unit does not support memory cards, and there is no AC charger included.
3) It does not come with a case of any kind, though could really use one. I'm sure the screen will be scratched soon. This too is an accessory you can buy.
For the $100 price tag (at the time of writing this) it's a pretty good deal. My only hesitation is that there are probably digital cameras that are out there which double as a video recorder with equal quality for a little more money.
This unit's greatest strength is how easy it is to use and it's tiny size and weight.
Great buy - Value July 5, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
An amazing value for under $100.
Anyone who crtiques the operation or controls has lost sight of the under $ 100 price tag.
I travel 100,000 miles a year and it is the only device in my briefcase to capture the moment.
Light, good quality video, easy to use, etc
I have one to my daughter in college
KP
Great Camcorder for Kids! July 4, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I like this little gadget. It's small, durable, and does the job it's supposed to. I ordered this to be sent to my brother's house and found my nephew using it way more than me!
The video was about on par with my CanonSD500 digital camera. Also, I use iSquint to change the format from avi to mpg. To me, perhaps the advertised price could be a little cheaper, but for the job it's a great addition.
2gb memory - Pretty cool, but some things are lacking June 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really like this little video camera, it's pretty cool and takes some rather good quality video. 200 megs of video equals about 00:07:30 or video (7.5 minutes). The device is a 2Gig unit that allways you about 1.8 gigs for video as some of the storage space is sucked up with programs and of course 2 gigs is actually 1.91 gigs of usable space.
Pros:
*Compact: I like how it's so small but does a rather good job.
*Simple: It's so simple to use it's rediculous, just hit the big button and record (would be better if the button was Red instead of white it would be more easily recognized as a record button).
*Video quality: for as small as this item is it's rather good at taking video, clean for the most part (i've noticed that it tends to have a decent amount of grain though is average lighting), smooth when you are moving the camera, no jumping of frames, at least not very noticable.
*Flip out USB connector: I like this but I think it's poorly placed IMO.
*Fast charging: I really liked how it only take a max of like just over 2 hours to charge and there is a fast charging option that is easily activated.
Cons:
*USB conector placement: it's right next to the tripod connector. So if you have it on a minipod you have to take it off inorder to hook it to the computer. I think making it so it flips off from the sidewould be much better so that it can be easier to get to the plug if you just want to leave a minipod hooked to it.
*The lens cover is easily scratched, I have a couple small scratches on mine already just from going in my pocket that had nothing else but this in it.
*Power button: while I do like it's placement on the side and how it's integrated into the devices style it's a little hard to push with big fingures like mine. Maybe the line that it blends with could be a little wider to accomodate people with bigger hands.
*Record button: a record symbol or it being red would be a good idea. friends that tried to use it had a hard time figuring it out.
*Screen: while I do like the size of the screen I do not like how you can't view it from the sides at all, a wider viewing angle would be great as you can't have your eyes directly in line with the LCD to be able to view it at all times.
*VOLUME*: all around poor, I noticed that it doesn't really pick sound up all that well. You have to talk loud inorder for it to come across clearly. As well the on board speaker doens't play back well at all IMO. In loud volume situations though the mic is overloaded and just can't handle the audio so it reproduces an annoying noise on the video.
I think for this to be a rather succesful product the last 2 issues really need to be addressed more.
One thing that I would think would make this worth a lot more is if it had the ability to be hooked into the computer and used the computer to record and change setting on the camera through the software that comes installed on it.
On the first couple of videos there was a DIVX logo brand but now there insn't IDK what the deal is now, but I like it a lot more without the branding on my video. IDK if this is just something that it does on the first couple or what, but i'm much happier it's gone now.
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