Creative Vado HD not bad at all. Ready to go out of the box. Silicone skin can be difficult to remove if you want to remove/exchange the battery. I've charged my camera with the USB adapter I charge my iPhone with and Creative Labs Vado HD works great! USB cord extender is a plus. Be prepared to jog a few laps or read a book while uploading videos to the internet as Creative Labs Vado HD can take quite a while (remember, you're recording in HD or HD+).
Works as advertised . I gave this to my wife as a Christmas present so I couldn't use Creative Labs Vado HD till the 24th, Creative Labs Vado HD does not come with a lot of instructions, but you don't need them you turn Creative Labs Vado HD on and press the record button, it's that simple, I don't know what probs other people are having with attaching Creative Labs Vado HD to the computer and installing the vado software, but that was easy as well. This thing takes great video and the sound is pretty good. The best part is putting Creative Labs Vado HD on my 61 dlp and seeing Creative Labs Vado HD full screen. Maybe their computers don't have the minimum specs, but this thing rocks and feels pretty sturdy. Awesome.
Did not work right - had to return to Amazon.com. I ordered my Vado HD last week. Originally I was going to purchase the Flip Mino HD, but then decided to go with the VADO since I liked the 8 GB memory (twice that of the FLIP) and I researched a number of reviews on sites all over the Internet that said that while the picture was not as good as the MINO, Creative Labs Vado HD was close and meanwhile a number of features (like the ability to change resolution to get up to 8 hours, use of swappable rechargable battery, etc.) were better on the VADO.
Well I got my unit on Monday (about 5 days ago). Creative Labs Vado HD was very timely, because the next day I was attending my small children's holiday concert at their pre-school and this gave me a perfect chance to try out the device.
On the plus side, the packaging was decent, the product came with a nice plastic protective cover and the form factor and functionality were intuitive and easy to use.
The immediate cons were that the instructions (if you can call them that) included in the box are laughably basic. It's literally a hard to read (tiny letters) pamphlet, and basically not very helpful. However, Creative Labs Vado HD was enough to figure out how to use the device.
While the device is sturdy enough, I did not care for the design of the "flip out" USB connector, Creative Labs Vado HD felt a bit flimsy. Unfortunately, this connector seems designed to use more so with a Laptop than a desktop in terms of the configuration of the USB connector since the device hangs off of it. Fortunately, there was an extender cable in the box (a plus), however, the device seems not to be able to charge through the extender cord (at least Creative Labs Vado HD did not for me).
The Video quality is decent (in the HD+ mode). However, the biggest issue I experienced right away was that the AUDIO and VIDEO were out of sync when I transferred any of the recorded Video files to my computer. Creative Labs Vado HD played properly on the device, but when I transferred the AVI video files from the VADO to my PC or laptop (I tried on two different computers to make sure Creative Labs Vado HD was not just my machine at fault), the sound played correctly, but the VIDEO went too slow: i.e., the sound and the video did not match up.
I tried a variety of things including looking up the product on the CREATIVE website for this product. Unfortunately, this section of their site is poor from both a quality and quantity of helpful content perspective. There was very little there and really no way to even look up a phone number to call.
Fortunately, through Google I found their customer service phone number listed by someone else (Why not make Creative Labs Vado HD accessible from their own website?). I called the number and Creative Labs Vado HD was quick in terms of being able to get to a human being (sounded offshore). The person had a good demeanor and tried to be helpful. She walked me through a couple of possible things to try in order to fix the issue. Unfortunately, none of them worked and apparently my device (which was just released) already had the latest software.
I was on the phone for about 45 minutes. Since nothing worked, they actually suggested that I return the product to Amazon.com as the only solution! This is in fact what I ended up doing about 3 days after I received my Vado HD. I am disappointed that Creative Labs Vado HD did not work out and I definitely don't have any use for a video recorder where the sound and video don't sync up. Good riddance! Not having tried any of the other competing devices like the Flip Mino HD, I can't make a comparison, but as for the Vado - ultimately - Creative Labs Vado HD was a disappointment. I will think twice about purchasing a creative product again (at least in the video category) after this C+ experience with the Vado HD.
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Post script: I was a bit annoyed that the videos I shot during my trial period were out of sync - SO I tried to figure out how to fix the issue with the videos of my children. I did figure out a solution using a free software package.
I ended up using a free program called AVI-MUX (google Creative Labs Vado HD if you have the same issue I did). What I did was I loaded each avi clip into AVI MUX and then I converted them into a MKV (Matroska Video File) using the AVI-MUX program. Once I had the MKV file, I was able to play Creative Labs Vado HD in VLC media player and the audio and video are now in Sync. However, there is no way that I would go through such a complicated process each time so I am glad I gave the product back as mentioned above. However, I am happy to have found a way to salvage the few valuable videos that I did shoot during the trial period so that they now work correctly. There are probably better ways to do it, but the above worked for me so I include the description above in case others experience this problem too.
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