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1. 
   Bill Barol

   I’d had the Zi6 for about five minutes when the pop-out USB jack jammed halfway open, rendering the camera useless. Sure, it may have just been one defective unit out of many. But in a competitive marketplace where there are other options (hello Mino HD!), there’s no reason to put up with crappy manufacturing standards. As an addendum: I did have the camera long enough to be unimpressed by the video quality. Back it went. Thanks, Amazon, for the speedy refund.
   Rating: 2 / 5

   January 7, 2010 1:45 am | #1
2. 
   Tom Zaidman

   Needed urgently a small video camera and when it arrived the screen did not light up enough to see what was being recorded.

   Returned it right away, still no news when I`ll get it back. A real pity since was very excited about this product. Sent it with the HD card and advised that it did not arrive with the card!!!
   Rating: 1 / 5

   January 7, 2010 3:58 am | #2
3. 
   D. Dugan

   I selected this camera because it was way more convenient than the digital video camera I have been using. I wanted something that could fit in my pocket and upload video easily to grandparents. So far I have used this camera only a few times, and been really disapointed. My main concern is the image quality – photos are sometimes good quality, but frequently blurry or out of focus and video breaks up into pixelation every 10 to 15 seconds. I do not know if I have a bad camera or if this is just the expected quality. I am really sorry I bought this camera rather than waiting for lots of others to post experiences.
   Rating: 2 / 5

   January 7, 2010 5:54 am | #3
4. 
   Burhan Gharaibeh

   I bought this product after reading several reviewws on it particularly on Amazon. Be careful reading junk info by pseudopundits! People will tell you anything! Useless little product. No significant information in the manual. No troubleshooting whatsoever. Kodak chat had no clue what the problems where. Connecting to the computer is very difficult. Software is invoked when the camera is plugged into the port but then does nothing. Slick, folding USB but that is it! Shot several videos which did not look High Def to begin with but while downloading them, they get corrupted easily. I started seeing the screen all green, then red, etc. Not a good experience at all. But may be that is all the pocket HD cameras and not just Kodak. 2 AA batteries with charger came with it. They are supposed to fully charge in 12 hours and then switch the indicator lights off. 30 hours in the socket and the two red lights were still on!! Not very reassuring because once you connect to the computer, the batteries are sucked dry in an hour or so. Oh, and the Kodak web site has a help line for all Kodak products. After many links, I was told that I need Win XP Pro. The Kodak CD that came with it says Win XP. Hello!
   Rating: 1 / 5

   January 7, 2010 7:25 am | #4
5. 
   merg

   There was a time when you could trust amazon.com reviews. No longer.

   This camera is pretty much a piece of junk. Yes, it records videos in three modes (vga, hd, hd60), but what good is it when you can’t play them back (you can play them back only from zi6, see below).

   Its interface is also quite dumb (e.g. when you start the thing first time, it asks you something, but you will have absolutely no idea what it is asking and what your options are).

   Trying in three different computers with three different OS (linux, OS X, Windows), the videos of this crap turned out to be unplayable (very choppy playback, video and audio out of sync). Some googling revealed that some people think this is due to poor hardware on the PC you are trying to play, but the computers I tried were quite good… My belief is that the problem is due most probably to some proprietary codec they use (and most probably tweaked outside the standards) in this thing.

   The batteries charge in 13 to 15 hours! And the charger will not be able to show you if they’re charged or not, because (as mentioned in the manual), its lights will be on as long as it is plugged in and has batteries in it. I don’t understand the thinking behind this… a camera that gets charged in 13 hours. ouch.

   The software that comes with it is another piece of junk (by ArcSoft). Apart from its hideous interface, it hangs up while converting and playing videos… It keeps popping up and asking you to register the software and giving other stupid ads (like “30% of your next activation” -what activation??? who knows). Thank god that junk is for windows only. Mac and Linux users would go crazy by the (poor) programming and design behind it…

   Kodak’s support site is another piece of junk where you won’t be able to even navigate, let alone find an answer to your problems.

   I don’t know about the flip mino, but stay away from this crap. obviously only their marketing team knew what they were doing. I’m very depressed that I bought it.
   Rating: 1 / 5

   January 7, 2010 9:20 am | #5