No idea if this is a good deal or not, I'll let you decide:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Mod ... J&T=295029

I don't know how many hours of footage that will hold, but I suspect it's not much at 1920x1080!

Through history, amateur moving picture recording devices have typically been limited to 3 - 10 minutes. You should be able to fit a darn site more than that on. Cards are pretty cheap, and most videos are made up from fairly short scenes. I don't see storage as the issue.

My question is; what's the quality like? At that resolution, cheap glass, cheap CCDs and under-powered processing are bound to produce grain, visible artefacts, poor image and possibly stuttering.

I might be wrong though. I'll see if they'll let me play with one

I'm impressed.
It offers 8 megapixels from a 5 megapixel sensor.

Hmm, I don't agree JJ.

I wouldn't want to take 10 SD cards with me on holiday. I would want to take one and leave it in the camera.

If you aren't going on holiday, and you are instead going to record a birthday party or sporting event etc then you can pretty much guarantee that anything of interest will happen while you are changing cards.

It's a deal breaker for me, I'm afraid.

Think yourself lucky you never used 8mm cine then

Just knock it down to DVD resolution if you need more than 30 minutes. Doesn't make it any worse than any other 'corder.

OH GOD!

It's the Toshiba (?) Camelio!

For those who have never heard of it, basically it's a cheap chinese camera, rebranded as a Toshiba camera. And it's pretty poor.

Ashens review on Youtube. Dry British wit FTW!

Waste of money. As are most devices from maplin. *shudder*

Oh I dunno, I've got a USB hub that also charges batteries, a decent PSU and various useful bits and bobs over the years from them, all cheap otherwise I wouldn't have bought them

You must've been on a good day then.

I bought 2 Wifi dongles from them, and within a week they'd stopped working. A PSU I bought stopped working and took my mobo with it after half a hour on Crysis (my old old pentium 4 machine), and I've had other tat from there (like a USB flash drive) that knackered up after a week or two.

I've bought loads of stuff from them. Their PP3 rechargeables were cheaper than anywhere I could find on-line. I got my little 7" TV which is OK. Over the last 30 years I've bought I don't know how many little components, but that was mostly because I could actually go get them. A bit like RS - expensive but fast. I confess I may have bought a mouse at PC World for £20 for the same reason...

Some of their PC stuff is a real laugh though - 5 year old GFX cards for over £9000

I've bought stuff from their stores all around Belfast and never had a problem, same with online

Yes, they rival Apple for some of their memory prices I've noticed

As you say, being able to just walk in is very handy

It's compresses it using AVCHD. According to the site "Up to 2 hours recording of high definition video on an 8GB SDHC card; it supports SDHC cards up to 16GB "