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RCA EZ300HD Small Wonder High Definition Digital Camcorder (Black) B001GV22V2 RCA RCA EZ300HD Small Wonder High Definition Digital Camcorder (Black) Camera & Photo Great little camera. Works with Mac with some tools. See video on Amazon.com 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/
Zaccariah Bowling "code monkey" December 13, 2008

Overall: 5

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