A New Flip Joins the BoomTown Video Family: High-Def Hijinks Ensue!

As you might know from Katherine Boehret’s review of Pure Digital Technologies’ newest Flip today, there is now a high-definition version of the popular digital video camera. BoomTown has been using some version of the Flip for our videos since the site started almost two years ago to make our jiggly masterpieces about the tech scene. Thus, here’s a video where my old Flips meet the new one in town.

Flip Camcorder Goes High-Def

Katie reviews the Pure Digital Technologies Flip MinoHD, a handheld camcorder that is capable of capturing high-definition footage in 1280×720 pixel resolution, or 720p. (The regular Mino records at 640×480 pixels.)

Flip Video Mino Takes Aim at the Cool Set

The Flip Video Mino changes the way people capture and share videos, and that’s a great thing. And if you really want a sleek, hip-looking gadget, you’ll learn to overlook and adjust to the touch-sensitive buttons that aren’t as functional as they needed to be.

Pure Cash Infusion

Pure Digital Technologies, which we demoed at D3 (you can see photos and videos here), just got $40 million in additional funding, a nice shot in the arm for the San Francisco maker of one-time use digital camcorders and cameras, as well as camcorders whose content you can upload to video-sharing services. It has added [...]