Customer Reviews

8GB DVR Pen Video Camera / Mini DVR / Thumb Drive with Video + Audio

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This is definitely a must-have item for any lover of all things geeky or nifty little gadgets. The battery lasts surprisingly long considering how small it is and the video quality is also exceptionally efficient given it's compactness and so forth. The instructions are very difficult to read, but I didn't need any. You just push the button (the ONLY button on the device) to turn it on and start recording and then again to stop. When the light is blue, the pen is recording. When its orange, the recording has been stopped. Press the button a third time to start recording again, or hold down the button for a few seconds to turn it off completely, which drastically improves battery life. (When the light is off, the pen is off.)

All in all, its a really fun little gadget to play around with and would probably make a great gift - I know I would have loved to get one as a gift. The people who gave 1-star or 2-star reviews are either doing something wrong or received a defective one or something. But mine works great, even after having had mine and used it fairly regularly for a year or so. The reason I've given it 4 stars instead of 5, is because the 4gb version is so much more reasonably priced. Yes, its half as much memory, but even 4gb is a significant amount of memory, and unless you're keeping your videos on the pen or recording for a reasonably long period of time between uploads (or downloads?) to your computer, then 4gb is probably sufficient. Heck, for the price, you could just buy 2 (...or 3) of the 4gb pens for the price of one 8gb pens and just use the 4gb pens one after the other. Lol. I admit I do own the 8gb pen myself, but that's because I bought mine long before the price had fallen so much on the 4gb ones. I hope that helps everyone! Happy buying!