Phase Out!
With the new Flip Video Mino, Pure Digital is phasing out its retail DVD-processing service. While the Mino, like previous Flip camcorders, can be brought to participating retailers to have its video burned to DVD, Pure Digital will no longer advertise that capability and will, in tandem with its retail partners, eventually phase out the service, said marketing VP Simon Fleming-Wood. In its place, Pure Digital will offer its own DVD-burning service via software built into the Mino. Using the software, consumers will be able to upload an hour's worth of Flip video and have a DVD made and mailed back to them (or to any location around the world) for $19.99. http://www.twice.com/article/CA6570509.html Does the mino offer a new challenge for CameraHacking? Why would anyone with a computer upload an hour of video and then pay $19.99 to have it burned to a DVD?

If that's true, then I wonder if the supposedly upcoming new release one time use camcorders will still emerge? It's hard to believe they would abandon the one time use market area completely. No one else has that area of retail. I think they should just reduce the costs that accompany the one time use market, mainly the unit's cost and it's overpriced developing fee. To me that is it's only downfall. I wonder what kind of time frame they have in mind?

Dumpster Diving!