creative vado hd pocket camcorder With CES 2009 fast approaching, I’ve been thinking about getting a small portable high definition camera and with the recent launch of the Creative Vado HD Pocket Video Camcorder, I must say that I’ve been interested in picking one up. Well as per my usual research patterns, I decided to see if anyone published reviews of the new camcorder – luckily I found two – PC World and CNET.

PC World rated the camcorder an 89 out of 100 (calling it “video good”) and had this to say:

“The Vado HD is a pretty slick package. It lacks the sex appeal of some other camcorders in its class, such as the Flip Mino series, and it lacks a Mac-compatible video-management app. Nevertheless, good overall image quality, a user-replaceable battery, and other niceties make the Vado HD an attention-worthy option for a pocketable HD camcorder.”

Not too bad.. but what did CNET think of the camcorder?

“The Creative Vado HD may fall slightly short of the Flip Video Mino HD in terms of video quality, but it’s stronger feature set may tempt you.”

So what does this all mean for me? At $199.99, it’s definitely hard to pass up. If only the Vado had a built-in memory card reader.. but then again, the 8GB storage space isn’t too bad either. Just make sure you have a netbook lying around to upload videos to!

Well, I’ll make my decisions soon I suppose!

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