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Are Consumer Camcorders Becoming Obsolete?
Now days you’d be hard pressed to find a point and shoot camera that doesn’t capture movies as well as pictures. A few years back, digital cameras started introducing the feature but only to a limited degree. Giving you a cool, but basically useless feature by not including sound, limiting the time you could record, and all had terrible video quality. Now, not only is video recording found on cell phones, point and shoot cameras, some high-end SLRs and even the iPod Nano, but all are even getting into the game of quality movie capture. Lets face it, products tend to not sell unless the “HD” logo is somewhere on it. Sure you could get a camcorder like the Flip Video Slide HD, which is a cool video camera by … Read entire article »
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Using the Internet Cloud to store your Pictures and Movies
The Google Chrome OS is betting many of the world’s computer users will let go of the internal hard drive security blanket and embrace the “Cloud”. Imagine that all of your photos, home movies, music, work and even financial information is all kept online. The “Cloud”, as it’s called, describes what a lot of us do already. Most of our time is spent on the net so why not save everything on the net. Now if my laptop is stolen, its not just the machine that was taken, it’s all of my information, my family photos, movies, financial docs, etc. that is also taken. However, if your computer was just the browser to interface with all of your content, all you lost was the laptop because all your files are … Read entire article »
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