disposable video cameras (CVS, Walgreens)

bobogs · Member Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Location: United States

I'm thinking of using these inexpensive disposable video cameras to gather video from far-away relatives for a birthday dvd. I think they run ~$30 for the device (20 minutes recording time?), then another $13 for the photo lab to pull the video off the internal memory onto a dvd.

Just wondering if anyone's found a way to capture the footage onto a pc, bypassing the photo lab and saving some money. I haven't seen the device yet, but I'm guessing there's no usb or firewire port.

I wonder if I should crack one open and see if it's a CF or SD card in there? Maybe they use some proprietary video format?

Thanks!
Gary

TBoneit · Member Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Location: USA

Search the internet and here. I've seen details somewhere as well as here

http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=270779&highlight=d ... deo+camera

http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=270910&highlight=d ... deo+camera

bobogs · Member Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Location: United States

Thanks for the links...my searches were for [disposable video "camera"], not "camcorder," so I didn't find these posts.

That amount of hacking seems way out of my league. I'll probably just stick with letting CVS pull the video off the devices.

Thanks!
Gary

zoobie · Posted: Apr 13, 2006 16:10

Let us know what happened and if there's a video out

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