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The world of digital camcorders is speeding along as fast as the computer industry, bringing together more and more amazing features in packages shrinking. Take for example the exchange of new video cameras that have been developed recently. At this point, is mainly a competition between two products: Kodak Zi8 new Flip Mino camcorders.

Both products have been carefully designed to capture the growing market for easy to use and extremely portable video cameras built in capabilities that make sharing videos on your computer and upload to the popular social networking sites extremely easy. Let's do a quick review of the digital video camera for those two products.

Flip and Kodak are justifiably proud of their respective product lines, and making it easy to find plenty of information online. Of course, one of the most important worldwide is price, and you will find that exactly the same price, $ 179.99. Until now, a tie.

An important difference between these two is that the Zi8 Kodak, Like most digital video cameras, has a very small amount of internal memory (only 128MB). The draw has a much larger capacity than 2 GB, 16 times. Score 1 for the cover.

However, this is huge, both literally and figuratively, the Kodak is based on the use of SD / SDHC memory to expand their storage capacity. The Flip Mino lets any room for expansion. The Kodak digital video camera can handle up to 32GB card for which want to go around. What does this mean? Up to 10 hours of video recording! Score a big advantage for Kodak.

One thing that is similar between the two is that both share a very useful built in the swing-out USB arm, so you do not need camera's USB cable specific. You can only swing the arm and connect directly to your computer and then share. Down with clutter! A tie.

Both come with video editing software and photography, but only has capacity Zi8 HD video recording and an HDMI output on the camera to connect directly to your HDTV for instant viewing. A Kodak win.

But from here, really is not much of a contest. The Flip Mino, and older brother who is also the MinoHD (which costs a lot more) can not hold a candle to the value and quality of Kodak Zi8. For the same price, you get a much bigger ViewScreen built in stablization image, Full Blown 1080 pixel high-definition video, and security that comes with the Kodak brand.

End result: the race between these two models is not remotely close to today – the pocket digital video camera Zi8 is superior. Of course, we do not expect to sit back flip.

For the latest info, see pocket video cameras site today. Also check our free pocket video camera guide.

Copyright 2009 Ron King. You can reprint this article if the resource box is left intact and the links live.

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