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Posted by Bill Funk on 12/21/06 14:52
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:31:29 GMT, "Roy G"
<roy.gibson1@REMOVE.tesco.net> wrote:
>
>"Bill Funk" <BigBill@there.com> wrote in message
>news:j65jo21j9pv8fq3337tpjcradpu3tvedqb@4ax.com...
>> On 20 Dec 2006 07:31:22 -0800, "QnA" <yubbers9@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>You may have seen that BestBuy is selling the latest
>>>incarnation of the Aiptek PVR, which shoots 640x480
>>>videos and has a big LCD, MP3 player etc. It seems
>>>that Circuit City sells a cheaper version of the same thing.
>>>
>>>The saleswoman at BestBuy doesn't like it. She says
>>>that people bring it back complaining of a focusing
>>>problem, and I am curious if anyone here has
>>>experienced that. However the store doesn't have one
>>>on display, so how could I know?
>>>
>>>http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7867472&st=aiptek&type=product&id=1142301544192
>>>http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Aiptek-Digital-Video-Camera-DV5900/sem/rpsm/oid/146748/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>
>> It's a piece of crap.
>> "Aiptek Digital Camcorder with Hard Drive and 2.4" Color LCD "
>> Oops, no hard drive; it uses SD and MMC.
>> There's no mic, so videos recorded through the lens have no sound.
>> Oh, wait: "Digital audio player plays MP3 files; built-in microphone
>> for rich, detailed audio." But wait, again; don't they mean "speaker"
>> instead of "microphone"? Below this, in Product Details, it clearly
>> says no audio sensor. But how can any audio from a speaker of a size
>> that will fit on this device deliver "rich, detailed audio"?
>> Use it as a PVR? Sure. What will you do with a movie on a SD card?
>> It will record SVHS quality. Wow.
>> It looks like they used Sigma's team of spec writers: "Enhanced
>> 8.0-megapixel digital camera with a 5.0-megapixel CMOS sensor for
>> stunning detail and clarity in still images; 640 x 480 video
>> resolution." 8 MP out of a 5 MP sensor.
>>
>> For this, they want $135. AND, they are sold out.
>> P. T. Barnum was right (and yes, I know he didn't really say it).
>> --
>> Bill Funk
>> replace "g" with "a"
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>Hi.
>
>You actually went to the bother of looking this piece of shite up, to find
>its specs, so you could advise. That is going the extra mile, just to be
>helpfull.
>
>I just said what I did because I had never heard of the maker, and thought
>that if he really wanted to know about it, he would try for a review, and
>then could conclude that it was crap.
>
>Roy G
>
What bothers me more than the fact that it's not really good is the
fact that they lie so blatently.
8 MP from a 5 MP sensor?
I understand that the people this device is aimed at aren't the most
sophisticated buyers, but that type of blatent false advertisement is
beyond the pale.
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"
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