Comments on: Flip Video Mino Review

By: GeekNews

GeekNews — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:00:42 +0000

Review gear that is not required to be sent back is normally given away on my podcast. GNC is not a big publishing house we have 3-4 paid bloggers and I do the majority of the product reviews.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:14:21 +0000

Wow… I was totally hooked until the end. I don’t know what your internal policies are, but you should NEVER keep stuff anyone sends you for actual use other than the soul purpose of archival and review. We put our faith in you that you aren’t abusing your position as an authoritative news source and accepting freebies is a BIG NO NO in the SPJ Code of Ethics. I’m glad that they did send a box to ship it back in… very few companies actually do that.

You must understand that where I work, we constantly get freebies sent to us and it’s ridiculous how many reporters jump in and try to take it home. This stuff is there to give free publicity and if we like it enough we *might* give a critique/review, but that’s almost never the case. It’s a vicious circle that small businesses usually don’t understand; however, in today’s society we find more and more corporations paying off the media with these freebies.

By: unclejerry

unclejerry — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:59:40 +0000

I have the first version of the Flip and it’s great. I only use the on-board software to save it to the computer and then move the file over to iMovieHD to do any editing. Never have had it crash or any other problems with it. For the price it does what it should. The digital zoom sucks, wish they could have done a little bit of optical but that would have raised the price with adding another lens and mechanical parts. Low light shooting isn’t the greatest, seems to have a lot of noise. But with that all being said, if I didn’t already own the first gen model I would pick the new Mino one up in a heart beat.

By: BL Sansotta

BL Sansotta — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:38:02 +0000

That little cam displays your video quite clearly. Very clean. Definitely think it is worth the $179. My cameras seem to render faster if I use firewire. What about this one?