Samsung has shipped a hard-drive-based camcorder that shoots MPEG4 video. The device does just about everything you'd expect — shoot stills, play MP3, and work as an outboard hard-drive, but involves two very puzzling design decisions:
1. It only has a 1.5GB drive. My walkman has a 20 GB drive! With only a one-hour capacity, the camera is all but useless unless you've got a PC with a big drive handy, so that you can shove video off of the camera and into the box as it fills up. However, this is a giant PITA, 'cause:
2. It only has a USB2 output. Firewire 800 is backwards compatible with FireWiree 400, runs faster than stink, and FW interfaces are already standard among video-heads.
What the hell was Samsung thinking?
(via /.)
