Creative Vado HD (3rd Generation)
In December 2009, Creative released a successor to the original Creative Vado HD, the Creative Vado HD (Third Generation). The Third Generation now encodes to MP4 format, offering more compatibility and better compression. The new firmware also allows for manual exposure adjustment, a feature uncommon to cameras of this category. Another new feature introduced in the third generation is the ability to take still photographs, at 1280x720 resolution. Instead of pressing a combination of buttons to access the settings page, one could now gain access to the page by pressing and holding the mode selector button, which normally switches between still photography mode and video capture mode.
In terms of design changes, the physical buttons on the original Vado HD were replaced by capacitive touch areas. It also features a new multi-function 3.5 mm jack, which can be set to serve as a headphones jack, an external microphone input, or as an audio/video output to RCA. In addition, the device also sports a HDMI output, allowing direct connection to any HD-capable display.
Unlike the original Vado HD, the Third Generation is only offered in a 4 gigabyte version. With this capacity, the Third Generation Vado produces one hour of 720p video at approximately 7000 kbit/s, or two hours of 720p video at approximately 4000 kbit/s.
The Vado HD (3rd Generation) ships with version 3.0 of the Vado Central software. In addition to being able to upload directly to YouTube and Photobucket, this version also allows direct uploads to box.net, Facebook and Kincast.
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