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The world of digital camcorders is hurtling along at the same momentum as the computer industry, gathering more and more amazing features in ever smaller packages. Take, for instance, the new pocket video camera that have been revealed lately. At this moment, it is largely a competition between just two products: the new Kodak Zi8 and the Flip Mino camcorders.

Both products have been carefully designed to garner the increasing market of easy to use and exceptionally portable camcorders with built in abilities that make sharing the videos on the computer and loading them up to the typical social networking sites extremely easy. Let’s do a quick digital video camera review of these two cameras.

Flip and Kodak are both legitimately proud of their distinct product lines, and make it simple to catalog lots of information online. Of course, one of the most significant attributes to everyone is the price, and you will see that they at exactly the same price point, $179.99. So far they’re even.

One obvious distinction between these two is that the Kodak Zi8, like most pocket video cameras, has an extremely meagre amount of internal memory — only 128 MB. The Flip has a much larger capacity of 2 GB, 16 times as much. Score 1 for the Flip.

However, and this is colossal, the Kodak depends on the use of SD/SDHC memory slots to generate it’s storage capabilities. The Flip Mino leaves you no room for expansion. The Kodak digital video camera can manage up to a 32 GB card for those who want to go all out. What does that mean? Up to 10 HOURS of video recording! That’s a huge plus for Kodak.

One of the characteristics that is similar between the two is they both have a very functional built in USB swing-out arm, so you don’t need camera specific cables. You can just pull out the arm and plug it promptly into your computer and start sharing. No more cable clutter! The score is tied.

Both come with video and picture editing software, but only the Zi8 has HD capable video recording, and a HDMI output on the camera itself to connect instantly to your HDTV for prompt screening. Kodak wins.

But from here on, it really isn’t much of a competition. The Flip Mino, and even it’s big brother the FlipHD, which costs considerably more, can’t hold a candle to the value and quality of the Kodak Zi8. For the same price, you get a considerably augmented view screen, built-in image stablization, full 1080 pixel HD video, and the security that comes with the Kodak brand.

Countdown result: the race between these 2 models is not even close at present — the Zi8 pocket digital video camera is superior. However, don’t expect Flip will sit by quietly as their market share evaporates.

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