Great. This camera will hold 240GB of video. That will be its big selling point for consumers.
But the problem is... consumers won't know how to move 240GB of data to their computers... or how to properly back it up.
The nice thing about this camcorder is... dads will be able to store Timmy's entire soccer season on the camcorder! Instead of a shelf full of videotapes in the old days... you just put this camcorder on the shelf for storage!
I know people that still have pictures from last summer on their digital cameras... because they don't know how to manage photos on their computers. They are using the camera itself for long term storage.
* I know I'm being cynical... but the truth is... technology is rapidly outpacing people's knowledge of what to do with that technology. EVERYBODY has a digital camera... but NO ONE knows what to do with their photos. I once talked to a family that shot digital pictures... printed each one... then deleted their card. No computer storage at all. Wow.
HP's Jon Rubenstein told us that his company wanted to veer in a new direction, and veer it surely did -- the HP Veer 4G will arguably be the smallest fully-functional smartphone on the market when it goes on sale May 15th.
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Great. This camera will hold 240GB of video. That will be its big selling point for consumers.
But the problem is... consumers won't know how to move 240GB of data to their computers... or how to properly back it up.
The nice thing about this camcorder is... dads will be able to store Timmy's entire soccer season on the camcorder! Instead of a shelf full of videotapes in the old days... you just put this camcorder on the shelf for storage!
I know people that still have pictures from last summer on their digital cameras... because they don't know how to manage photos on their computers. They are using the camera itself for long term storage.
* I know I'm being cynical... but the truth is... technology is rapidly outpacing people's knowledge of what to do with that technology. EVERYBODY has a digital camera... but NO ONE knows what to do with their photos. I once talked to a family that shot digital pictures... printed each one... then deleted their card. No computer storage at all. Wow.