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there was a very famous kids' toy made by Fisher-Price, the PXL2000. it recorded video onto regular audio cassettes. it was meant for kids, but it's become something of a "classic" among some filmmakers. it even appeared in "Slacker". has anyone on this list ever used one of these things ? so what's the point ? there's a new nifty budget camera out. it's priced at a hundred bucks (120 euros). I've clipped some info about it at the bottom of this message. it makes me want to get Windows, I don't fucking believe it. first the historical item: (pictures) http://members.aol.com/pixelboy1/pixelpic.htm Its images were black and white, and the resolution was only about one-third that of consumer video cameras. The tape whizzed through the camera at high speed, so you could capture just five minutes of video on one side of a 90-minute cassette. But those little five-minute tapes were something to behold. Because of the low res, even the most ordinary objects took on an otherworldly quality. City streets became cubist daydreams. Close-ups of people and animals were instantly memorable, removed from time and place. Locations faded into a blurry chessboard, in close-up crystallizing into a machine's idea of grace. (home page) http://www.jm3.net/pxl/ The PXL-2000 is a camera which was manufactured by Fisher Price in the eighties. It was marketed as a toy for kids, so they could play at making their own home movies. The PXL-2000 is a completely self-contained camcorder. It records both audio and black and white video on standard chromium-oxide audio tapes. Imagine the old Atari video games on your grandma's tv. The perfect medium for low-budget movie-makers and experimenters... faq: http://www.jm3.net/pxl/FAQ/index another faq: http://elvis.rowan.edu/~cassidy/pixel/ technical: http://www.michaeloreilly.com/pixelpage.html links: http://www.ugs.org/Pixelvision/PXL2000.asp pixelporn contest: http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/jthomas/SurReview/reviews-html/pixelporn.html so anyways there's another budget video camera out. it doesn't use audio cassettes, it uses memory chips. it needs Windows (BARF!) and USB. it can save movies as WMV or AVI files, stills as JPG or BMP files. http://www.intelplay.com/products/dmc/ - Direct and record, capturing digital video and audio at or away from your computer - Edit your movies with the included software doing cool transitions between scenes - Add special effects and animations, plus titles and credits - Premiere and share your movies, screening them on your computer or sending them in e-mails - Take hundreds of snapshots like a digital camera, even create stop-motion animated movies tech stuff: http://support.intel.com/support/intelplay/moviecreator/index.htm http://support.intel.com/support/intelplay/moviecreator/apptech.htm I want one of these things f
