Giving In to Temptation

According to my DHL tracking report, my purchases will be arriving today. I gave in and ordered this Flip Video Ultra Series camcorder that was featured a couple of weeks ago in my favorite blog for new gadgets, geeksugar.com. It's an inexpensive camcorder that can record an hour's worth of video and runs completely on flash memory.

This type of memory for video camcorders is being adopted by major brands like Sony, Panasonic, Canon and Samsung, which have launched their own flash memory-based players that I had considered buying instead of the Flip. I considered them, but they (1) were really expensive, (2) had crappy customer reviews, (3) didn't look as cool!

If I had to choose I would go for the camera more than the camcorder when capturing memories. I'm not really a video type of girl, it's just that in the field I am in - with the rise of YouTube and user-generated content becoming predominantly video content, I thought I should at least try to figure out how all these sites work as a content provider.

And so I went for the simplest to use beginner camcorder - which all the celebrities seem to carry around and play with now - and we'll see what happens. Knowing me, the videos will probably be mostly about my budgies hehehe.