How To: Hide Zi8 Record Light

Nothing is more aggravating than recording a video and then finding out later that your video is ruined due to an overly bright recording light. With the Kodak Zi8 pocket HD camera, this problem seems to happen quite often.  You cannot record in low light or record any glossy type surfaces due to the record light being so bright. All of the videos have a red tint or a red dot right in the center of them.

Fed up with the red cast and red dots in my videos, I decided to do something about it. I was going to put tape over the light but then I realized, tape would eventually come off and then it’d leave a sticky residue on the camera. So the next best thing to do was to paint the darn thing! I didn’t want to paint the outside because I figured it’d be more work than what it is and it’d also take away from the over all appearance of the device.  I found out you can remove the lens cover and gain access to the light post from within the lens cover.

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Network Enabled Vizio’s Add More Features

As we all know in this day in age almost all the major CE manufactures have thrown their hat in the ring in the HDTV market. Vizio offers a very good product with a very competitive price point and was voted best picture quality in 2008. Don’t take this as a sales pitch but for those of you who are economically conservative these are some very serious features to consider.

By the end of 2009, all Vizio Internet Apps TVs will offer access to eBay, Facebook, Radiotime, fantasy sports site Rallypoint, web TV service Revision 3 and Twitter, the company said. The sets will also include add-on content for Showtime programming and access to Vudu’s library of HD content.

The new offers will join Vizio’s previously-announced content apps, including Amazon Video On Demand, Blockbuster On Demand, Flickr, Netflix, Pandora and Rhapsody.

Vizio’s line of Internet Apps HDTVs feature built-in 802.11n wireless networking support along with Ethernet for connecting to a home network. From there, the user can access the company’s list of content providers right through the TV with the touch of a button. And, according to a recent report from Parks Associates, it’s a market segment that’s growing. Based on Parks’ research, there are some 2.5 million North American broadband households that are ready to buy a web-connected TV.

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