{"id":419,"date":"2007-06-18T20:47:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/advancedmedialab.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/18\/if-you-cant-beat-them\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T20:47:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T20:47:28","slug":"if-you-cant-beat-them-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"If you can&#8217;t beat them&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/advancedmedialab.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/18\/if-you-cant-beat-them\/flip-video\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-383\" title=\"Flip Video\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/advancedmedialab.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/flip_camera03.jpg\" alt=\"Flip Video\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" \/><\/a>If you can&#8217;t beat the hacking community, join them&#8230; so Flip Video is proceeding with their marketing program driven primarily with a contest featured on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=2353734285&amp;ref=nf\" title=\"Flip Video Contest\" target=\"_blank\">Enter for your own chance for a free Flip Video Camera here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flip Video is essentially the &#8220;same&#8221; CVS camera that has been hacked back and forth by the hacking community since it was released&#8230; I guess Pure Digital decided to go ahead and build out this USB connected device instead of, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/08\/how_to_cvs_vide_1.html\" title=\"CVS Video Camera hack\" target=\"_blank\">try as they might,<\/a> keeping it locked down<a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/08\/how_to_cvs_vide_1.html\" title=\"CVS Video Camera hack\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>. They&#8217;ve managed to keep the original network of DVD vendors with the pharmacy chains, so that doesn&#8217;t dilute the original intent or eat away at that particular aspect of the business model and\/or value chain&#8230; although most people with newer machines will just burn a copy on their local machines. This option would allow you to stop by any pharmacy location and grab a quick backup DVD copy to send out to friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>In addition include a fancy USB connector and bundled a bunch of software&#8230; no hacking required. To top it off they give you direct access to dump content directly to (insert favorite brand of online video website). It seems like a pretty decent way to grab video without having to worry about a costly, high-end camera getting lost, dropped or stolen&#8230; now someone just needs to hack it to handle a larger memory capacity beyond the 512mb or 1 GB!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/blog\/archive\/2005\/08\/how_to_cvs_vide_1.html\" title=\"Pure Digital's Flip Video camcorder\" target=\"_blank\">\u00c2\u00a0Here&#8217;s a pretty decent review of the whole package, includes a sample AVI file for previewing&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#8217;t beat the hacking community, join them&#8230; so Flip Video is proceeding with their marketing program driven primarily with a contest featured on Facebook. Enter for your own chance for a free Flip Video Camera here. Flip Video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,37,50,62,69],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-innovation","tag-podcasts","tag-software","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}