We have both - a hacked C200, and the retail version from Target.
The retail one has 30 minutes instead of 20 minutes capacity, and the video image is double the size of my hacked unit (how can this be?).
The retail unit comes with some really great software, and the image quality is phenomenal considering the price, and the fact it's only got 512MB of flash in it. We make "movies" in Windows Movie Maker from the retail version all the time, burning them to DVD or rendering them for email/web consumption.
The hacked one was fun to do, but the added features and image quality of the retail one is worth every penny - do the DVDs yourself, and you have one dynamite little camera that costs as close to nothing as possible. Oh, and it runs almost forever on a pair of rechargeable AA's.
Sure, my Sony camcorder takes higher quality video, but it sure doesn't fit in my shirt pocket like these little camcorders! I can't wait for the 1GB or SD equipped one (hint hint, Pure Digital)!
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We have both - a hacked C200, and the retail version from Target.
The retail one has 30 minutes instead of 20 minutes capacity, and the video image is double the size of my hacked unit (how can this be?).
The retail unit comes with some really great software, and the image quality is phenomenal considering the price, and the fact it's only got 512MB of flash in it. We make "movies" in Windows Movie Maker from the retail version all the time, burning them to DVD or rendering them for email/web consumption.
The hacked one was fun to do, but the added features and image quality of the retail one is worth every penny - do the DVDs yourself, and you have one dynamite little camera that costs as close to nothing as possible. Oh, and it runs almost forever on a pair of rechargeable AA's.
Sure, my Sony camcorder takes higher quality video, but it sure doesn't fit in my shirt pocket like these little camcorders! I can't wait for the 1GB or SD equipped one (hint hint, Pure Digital)!