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Samsung SC-MX20 Flash Memory Camcorder w/34x Optical Zoom (Red) Reviews

Customer Rating:
Summary: Software that makes this camcorder excellent!!!
Comment: I now love this camcorder, its light, easy to use and the video after being converted on my computer with the right software makes the quality wide screen and crystal clear. First the software that comes with it is called Cyberlink Mediashow and it seems pretty sweet but it won't allow a 16:9 aspect ratio even when selected. I went through Samsung's tech support through their level 2 guys who were stumped and I found free software at download.com, "Free Video Converter v 1.3 which updates automatically after installing to v1.4" and by selecting avi with Xvid 624x352 with 16:9, I got wide screen and great quality, I could have chosen up to 1920x1080 but on my 43" plasma 624x352 is sweet. I've got my 8 and 11 year olds using this camera like pro's and the videos are worth much more than the camera cost.
Hopefully Cyberling Mediashow will come up with a patch for their software as it has the potential to be great if they would just fix the aspect ratio issue.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: great camera !! :)
Comment: great camera, good quality, cheap price 34x zoom is a LOT and the picture displays well you can record up to 5 hrs if video with just an 8gb card the battery can last up to 3 hrs, or longer if you turn off the display
it works fine with macs, and iMovie HD and 08 the only downside is the fact that you cannot record directly onto iMovie, that requires a firewire camera

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Little Camera
Comment: This is a great little camera. Took a video, connected to my laptop, which looked at the camcorder as a USB storage device, opened it in a new window and just copied the MP4 to my desktop. I can play it as an MP4 from my desktop, but I opened Adobe Premier Elements and changed it to a Quicktime video (conversion took about a minute) which I can email to friends. I had no problem with video lag and I am wondering if the other reviewer may have inadvertantly put the camera in its time-lapse mode. I would say that the video is comparable to my Sony Handycam (for which I spent considerably more).

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Avoid this camera!
Comment: I bought this video camera for my daughters big 15th birthday party. I tested it a few times for the party recording some short clips and all looked well. The video was a decent quality, the sound was good. It looked nice on my 32" HDTV. Unfortunately all was NOT well. Any clip over approx. 5 minutes would drop frames, but continue to record sound... This is a big problem because the most important part of my daughters party was a 35 minute clip and in that clip there are dropped frames about every 3 minutes. So about 10 minutes into this clip the video and the sound are so far out of sync that it is painful to watch. By the end of the video the video is about 5 seconds ahead of the sound. This is totally unacceptable and I have lost a very important memory to a lousy designed camera. It is certainly conceivable that I got a lemon camera, but I tried it with multiple memory cards so it was definitely the camera's fault and not my media. Just ask yourself before you purchase if you are willing to take that chance.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Perfect for what I need.
Comment: I just wanted a little camcorder with decent quality. For the money you can't go wrong with the SC-MX20. It is so simple and straight forward. The only thing I don't like is that none of the common/standard media players can play mp4 format. Other than that I like it and am very happy with the quality of the video. I would recomend it. I did a lot of research on camcorders the ones with good reviews are $350 +. I decided to take a chance on this camcorder because it is so new there aren't many reviews yet and I am very happy with my choice.

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