(Electronics) i bought with 8gb micro sd card. it has 2gb irnatnel mem. here are the facts they dont tell you. it records in 30 min. segments, audio or video. audio will record four hours and twenty min. before battery dies. recorded nine audio .wav files. each 29 min. .wav file was 6.95mb. total size 60.5 mb. sound quality is poor. but the files didnt have any break between them while playing in media player playlist. i just pressed start and let it run untill the batteries run out. unfortunatly it doesnt work that way with video. video now for the really terrible news. video looks excellent for 640 480 outdoors. but, colorless balance shifts constantly(color tint) which i found very grating. it gets worse. video files are 30 min also and the size ranges from 680mb to 2gb per file. with the average being 1 or 2 gb per 29min .avi file(it never reaches thirty). since its an .avi file it should be simple to work with, but that wasnt the case. acording to video inspecter video codec is ibm motion jpeg, 4051 kbps, 25 fps. quality 0.54 b/px. audio codec intel dvi adpcm. sample rate 8000 hz. bitrate 32 kbps. ive been looking for days and cant find this ibm motion jpeg codec to download. AND NO SOFTWARE IS INCLUDED! the irnatnel and external flash reminiscence has FAT32 file system, which is insane , since FAT32 CANT HANDLE LARGE FILE SIZES. IT SHOULD BE NTFS. vlc media player wont play the .avi files. THAT WAS THE FIRST CLUE THIS THING WAS A POS. windows media player will play the video with no audio. the only players i had that would work were nero showtime and zoom player. IF YOU ARNT A VIDEO GEEK YOU WILL PROBABLY BE DRIVEN INSANE, BECAUSE OF NON STANDARD CODECS THE THING USES. I HAVE THE CODEC PACKS INSTALLED THAT ARE RECOMENDED IN THE FAQ FILE SUPPORT ON THEIR WEBSITE. STILL WONT WORK. THE LINKS TO CODECS ON THEIR SITE SEND YOU TO INTERNET HELL. YOU NEVER GET THE CODEC YOU ARE LOKING FOR, YOU JUST KEEP GETTING SENT FROM PAGE TO PAGE, WITH NOTHING TO DOWNLOAD. ALSO WEBCAM FEATURE DOESNT WORK. the red light doesnt blink while charging, it just stays red, which is held to indicate full charge. i havnt bothered to try to convert one yet. im GOING TO RETURN it. now for the really terrible news, it wont record video continously untill the batteries run out. battery life for video is one hour fifty min. with total file size from 5.5gb to 6.5 gb. only the first file will play. all the others are carupted and unplayable. it records to external flash mem first, then goes to irnatnel. according to instructions you have to press stop and the lights blink while its saving file. im thinking thats why it wont record continiously. so you probably have to limet your recordings to less than 30 min. and press the stop pin. instructions say you get red light blinking for low battery, but was using at the time and blue recording light just went out.i got it for continous recording and now find its useless for what i want to do. also the case is sealled with no provision for changing the battery when it dies. making this esentially a hundred dollar disposible camera. on the pluse side object are in focus as accurate as a foot away or closer, maybe eight inches. i was able to record my computer screen from about a foot away and read the text. it has an led light that is not very bright and wouldnt help the picture for something more than an arms length away. my final opinion minimal instructions and no support. its like having a cell phone video, with out the phone. you would use it for the same things you would use cell phone video for. way over priced and over hyped. PASS ON THIS, DONT BUY IT. THE FIRST REVIEW WAS PROBABLY A SHILL.
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