p2pnet.net News:- Throw-away digital camcorders? Yup.

CVS drugstores now has $30 pocket-sized, 5.5 ounce digital video cameras.

But movie industry mouthpiece Dan Glickman can relax. He won’t have to start screaming at CVS for joining Sony, in particular, for marketing video cameras amateur film makers can use to capture Hollywood features.

Sony is one of the Big Seven movie studios which claims teenagers with camcorders are wreaking havoc with the movie business. But at the same time Sony designs, manufactures and sells many (most?) of the video cameras it and its fellow BitTorrent terrorists constantly bitch about.

The new disposable camera, however, is only able to shoot up to 20 minutes of video and sound.

For the moment.

“Pure Digital Technologies Inc. developed and designed the camera with just three buttons,” says the Associated Press. “One starts and stops recording, another is used to play back video and the third deletes recorded segments.”

But,.”Experience with film throwaway models may tempt you to call these cameras, made by Pure Digital Technologies, disposables, but technically they’re rentals,” says the Washington Post.

“You can’t get your digital pictures ‘developed’ anywhere and instead must return the camera to the store, which will transfer your photos to a data CD while you wait. The store keeps the camera.

“That CD includes Windows software for viewing, printing and e-mailing the photos. You can pay CVS 30 cents for each print – above market value these days – or take the CD home to print out the shots yourself or upload them to a photofinishing site.”

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See:-
teenagers with camcorders – New Sony ‘pirate’ camcorder, p2pnet, May 18, 2005
Associated Press – Video cameras go disposable, June 9, 2005
Washington Post – Digital Cameras Go Disposable (Almost), June 12, 2005

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