Filed under: Digital Cameras
While Polaroid may have had that snap ‘n shake camera
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Filed under: Digital Cameras
If you ever needed proof that megapixels aren’t everything in a digital camera, look no further than PC Magazine’s review of Polaroid’s PDC 5080 5 megapixel cam, which sells for just $90. You know things are bad when the best they can come up with on the pro side is “light” and “cheap.” The problems with the camera, on the other hand, read like a comedy of errors, from the open-at-your-own-risk blister pack the camera comes packaged in (rule #1, don’t buy a digital camera in a blister pack), to the way below average image quality compared to other 5MP cameras, to the 9 frame per second “video” capabilities, to the images that mysteriously dissappear from the SD card. Stay away from this one, folks, and warn your friends.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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The megapixel race is sort of like the old US / USSR arms race: all parties involved are in a mad rush to see who can out shoot the other. But instead of suffering a thermonuclear holocaust, we're subject to equally painful joyous, super-detailed photos of Uncle Fred's celebretory leap after bowling a perfect game. That said, Polaroid enters the fray with the latest addition to the 10 megapixel club, the i1032. It packs typical digital camera
Filed under: GPS, Portable Audio, Portable Video, Transportation
You know, it's still hard to get used to a new Polaroid product doing anything other than snapping pics. Well those are days are long gone, so blot your eyes old timers and check the new MGX-0550 -- Polaroid's new Sirf Star III, WAAS-enabled, 12-channel GPS and DVD/CD playin' combo device. That 5.6-inch touch-screen delivers your choice of kid squelching vids or the most relevant of the pre-loaded maps covering the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico. And yeah, the MGX-0550 will interrupt your media fix to provide the latest navigation instructions through your car stereo system via built-in FM transmitter. When you arrive, be sure to drag the MGX-0550 along since DVDs will play for another 3 hours off rechargeable battery. No pricing or availably yet, but then again, how much do you care?Filed under: Home Entertainment
We know the DRM-2001G DVR isn’t a real Polaroid product, and that the brand once synonymous with instant photography is now routinely slapped on everything from CRTs to portable DVD players. Still, we’d like to assume the Polaroid name means we’re getting something a little different from the standard me-too offerings of other brands, and in this case, that does indeed seem to be so. The DRM-2001G may look like any other DVR with an 80GB hard drive and DVD burner, but the $299 unit actually has a few tricks up its sleeve, thanks to its built-in YesDVD and TVGuardian software. The former apparently allows easy editing of videos before burning , including creation of chapters and even disc-label templates. The latter is a subscription-based “foul-language filtering” tool. We can’t imagine wanting to watch anything once it’s been through the filter, but we can think of at least a few other uses for the technology — like maybe a filter to, say, strip Paul Shaffer out of the Letterman show, or one to strip product placements out of sitcoms. Give us that, Polaroid, and you’ve got a winner on your hands.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments