http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/ Engadget Comments for Next-generation Flip Video camcorder rumored to boast WiFi http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/
This is a marketing gimmick that relies on people not using common sense. Sadly, this often succeeds.]]>Nov 18th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/
Seems like the obvious next thing is actually adding image stabilization. Or zoom. Or both.

I actually think the quality out of the Mino HD is already just fine, even on my big HDTV. The only real reason to up the resolution would be so they could do digital zoom rather than optical, which would cost more and maybe make the thing bigger.]]>Nov 20th 2009 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/
My Tivo HD doesn't.]]>Nov 20th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/
It really irks me that after recording several small clips in mp4, the join feature in the software isnt a join at all. It basically re-encodes the selection as one big wmv file! Why? If avi being a container format can be split and joined WITHOUT re-encoding, then surely it cannot be that difficult to do it for mp4 keeping the mp4 format. So in keeping the quality during the encoding process, you now end up with a wmv file 5-6 times bigger than the mp4 files you original started with - not to mention the times wasted for re-encoding something that doesn't need to be re-encoded to begin with.]]>Nov 18th 2009 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/
Not at those bit rates. Bringing bit rates up, noise down, and reducing rolling-shutter artifacts are top of the list. A clean 720P would be a big step forward for any of these cheapo small cams.]]>Nov 18th 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/
Agree with some of that. Video editors need to start doing things like this better. In fact even if you *do* want to edit your clips and take only a piece of one and glue it to a piece of another there is NO need to transcode the entire thing (which takes ages and degrades the quality). At best they would have to transcode just the GOP (a few seconds at most) at the start and end of the clip. The rest could just be copied. VideoReDo already does this for MPEG-2 clips. Its relatively straight-forward to do for MP4 as well.]]>Nov 20th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/
And you need a rear-view CAMERA for YOUR BIKE?

Ever heard of a mirror? Or turning your head?

And finally, given that you did need a camera, how does wireless networking help?]]>Nov 18th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 18th 2009 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Nov 19th 2009 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/next-generation-flip-video-camcorder-rumored-to-boast-wifi/Dec 1st 2009 11:57PM