Flip Is Back In the Game

Flip has been seen as one of the best buy for HD Camcorders for under $200, the  whole of the flip   HD Camcorder family  has  represents an entirely new category of camcorder that puts the power of video in the pockets of workaday consumers. Elegant in their easy as pie , Flip Video camcorders where the worlds first with on-board software Flip Video Software Program that launches directly from the camcorder. Using the program you can view, organize, and locally archive your videos in a clip-based library system. You can also capture still photos from video clips and edit your videos to create fun montages and YouTube ready videos. .  heretofore the flip is seen to be getting old mode , until now. Meet the new member of the the flip family The Flip Slide HD Camera

now enter the new flip slide HD camcorder, which  now records up to four hours of HD footage and splits apart to reveal a 3-inch widescreen for instantly observance video. The SlideHD’s videos are compatible with applications ranging from QuickTime Player to iTunes. All reports indicate that the Flip has been selling well from the time cisco added it to the family in 2009, despite the rise of all-in-one devices such as the iPod Nano.

The SlideHD, Will cost $279.99 per unit  and offers 12 hours of storage for videos and still images. The SlideHD represents yet another addition to a merchandise lineup that Cisco’s executives see as integral to the company’s leveraging of the progressively video-happy communicating and collaboration market. This should add more to the world of piont and shoot simplicy which was the selling piont to all the flip family.

As with previous Flip  Hd cameras, recharging the battery is a matter of connecting the device’s USB arm to a PC, which will also launch the preloaded FlipShare package? and allow videos to be downloaded and edited. The SlideHD’s H.264 HD videos are compatible with applications ranging from Windows Media Player and QuickTime Player to iTunes. The device’s outer shell can be customized with a variety of patterns and images, including the users’ own.

The Whole of the Flip Video family powers up in about 5-10 seconds and, once on, starts recording the instant you press the record button. Pressing it again stops the recording just as quickly and the Flip is ready to record the next clip within two seconds.

Uploading video to the Web isn’t second nature to everyone, and the makers of the new the flip video camera agnise that. Much like the way easy photo-sharing applications like iPhoto, Flickr and Picasa offer simple editing controls and take some of the pain out of uploading and sharing digital photos, the video camera set to hit stores Tuesday is packaged with editing software that will upload video clips to video-sharing sites YouTube and Grouper.

Despite suggestions that the rise of all-in-one devices, including the iPod Nano, could notwithstanding result in the demise of consecrate devices such as hand-held digital recorders, sales of the Flip rose from $50 million during the second quarter of fiscal 2009 to $130 million during the same period a year after. Cisco has also enjoyed growth in other areas, including customers for its ASR 1000 core router and UCS (Unified Computing System). The Flip, though, represents the company’s attempt to demonstrate its power to spread into areas beyond its traditional core business enterprise of enterprise networking.

What’s so great about the resistive touch screen? First off, it means you can interact with your Flip Slide HD with a stylus or while wearing gloves, so it’s great for recording your skiing adventures when you can’t take off your gloves. (Capacitive touchscreens, such as those used on the iPhone, use the electric charge from your fingertip to detect touch input.)

In addition to the big screen, the Flip Slide HD has stereo speakers and HDMI out, so you can easily show your videos off to friends. You can even customize your Flip Slide HD with your own image, or a variety of designs ranging from precis geometric designs, to leopard publish, to a impulsive cat that looks like the offspring of the Android mascot and Domo-kum.

The SlideHD’s new 3-inch 400 by 240-pixel touchscreen display also makes it easy to share videos with friends and family without connecting to a PC: the slide-up display lets the unit serve as a portable media player so folks can view their own personal video collection—the 16 GB of onboard storage is adequate” to handle up to 12 hours of playback capacity?—and users can even pop in headphones to keep their entertainment to themselves. Users can also connect the SlideHD to an HDTV via a separate HDMI adapter.

The flip Slide HD Camcorder improves an already excellent line of pocket camcorders with a new 3-inch 400 by 240-pixel touchscreen display also makes it easy to share videos with friends and family without connecting to a PC: more storage capacity, and an HDMI-out port.