RCA EZ300HD Small Wonder High Definition Digital Camcorder (Black)

by RCA

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 1.4 x 9.4 inches ; 15.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001GV22V2
• Item model number: EZ300HD
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,512 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 15, 2005

Product Description

If you are looking for high-definition image quality and real ease of use, you have found it with the Small Wonder HD digital camcorder. This sleek compact camcorder provides high definition recording to internal memory or to an SD Card. View your videos on the large 2.4 inch display, and record yourself with friends and family using the flip-out lens. When you are finished recording simply connect the device to your TV with HDMI or AV cables for simple viewing. Don¿t forget about Memory Manager, this intuitive software provides options to quickly view, edit, save or share your videos.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great little camera. Works with Mac with some tools., December 13, 2008

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Zaccariah Bowling "code monkey" (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA EZ300HD Small Wonder High Definition Digital Camcorder (Black) (Electronics)

Length:: 7:33 Mins

This video is my unboxing of the RCA EZ300HD from my blog.

Its great for the price.
Upsides:
* Price to features is much better then the Flip Video Camcorder: 60-Minutes (White) (the original) and about par with the Flip Video Mino Series Camcorder, 60 Minutes (Black)
* Simple, simple, simple!
* Mini HDMI port
* Full and Mini SD Card slots
* 3 recording modes


Downsides:
* Mono microphone that sorta sucks.
* Can't turn off onscreen display when using video out on RCA or HMDI (WTF?)
* Packaging from hell!

Some issues though for macs but they are solvable.

The h264 encoder encodes in h264 but the built decoder for quicktime from apple doesn't like something about it and the audio codec used in the audio stream is a microsoft based one (based on WMA).

There are two solutions that work wonderfully.
1. use an updated version of VLC
2. to play the videos system wide install:
a. FLIP4Mac - for the Microsoft Audio Codec)
b. Perian - for an FFMpeg based video codec for quicktime - http://www.perian.org/ -
I did a full review, sample videos, and unboxing of the product at:
http://zbowling.com/blog/2008/10/08/rca-small-wonder-ez300hd-review/

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of software problems..., May 30, 2009

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Floyd Goodrich "Jim G." (Alta Loma, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA EZ300HD Small Wonder High Definition Digital Camcorder (Black) (Electronics)

OK the thing works and the video looks good but thank God for a free download called "Any Video Converter" because XP and Vista hate this thing. On my new Vista home premium, the videos cause the player to crash and on XP I have to plug in the RCA via the USB and find the video clips then using the video converter program, convert them to MPEG 2 and then they play fine and look good. I ordered the Flip Ultra and tried to return this RCA but good ole "Blue Proton" wont let you send back ANY electronic device so beware of Blue Proton. The Flip Ultra runs circles around this RCA, no comparison. The Flip has better everything and is smaller and very well built. The only thing I like better on the RCA is the swivel lens but other than that I would strongly advise you to avoid this RCA and get a Flip Ultra, sure it cost a little more but its really worth it. The software programs on the Flip are great, the software on the RCA is buggy.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Didn't work & won't take it back, May 21, 2009

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H. Rosser "hrosser" (Ga) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RCA EZ300HD Small Wonder High Definition Digital Camcorder (Black) (Electronics)

Wish I could do a Video review - but nooo! It didn't work when I got it. After charging the battery per instructions, and putting it in I turned it on but the only thing that would display is the RCA logo it would not make a video or a still photo - nothing - I even had to remove the battery just to get the thing to turn off.
I wish it had worked - but now I'm out over a hundred bucks.
Blue Proton would not take it back - they sold a bad unit that did not work to begin with and won't take it back. Good company.