Digital HD Camcorder £129.99 - Aldi

denchys

wingobins wrote: »

Is this a good buy?
Digital HD camcorder, 5.0 megapixels, 10 x optical zoom, 4 x digital zoom, supports SD cards up to 8GB.

In Aldi, 23/10 for £129.99

I'm after a decent camcorder but wondering if this is any good

Managed to get one from Aldi, Wellington and am glad I did. Appears to be well built and it comes with 2 batteries, a 4gb memory card, remote control, belt pouch and 3 cables for usb, av and hdmi respectively.
Everything looks good so far and the recording quality is very impressive. Recommended.

bushrodmichael

bought one yesterday and played with it last night. seems good value for the money. not touch screen like my old sony, but it is easy to use and takes reasonable videos

accessibleweb

Has anyone else found a virus on the CD when checking. Bullguard comes up with Malware: Worm.Generic.55138 in \TotalMediaExtreme\data2.cab=>(IShield Module 568)

Phoned up the Traveler support line but they haven't had any other reports. Their suggestion was to turn off the virus checking software - which kind of defeats the object of having it in the first place. Is this some sort of false positive? How can I be sure it is safe to run?

HoofeHearted

Disable your AV software (temporarily).
Upload suspect file from CD to http://www.virustotal.com and see what they say.
Re-enable your AV.:j

accessibleweb

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately wwwdotvirustaldotcom rejected the file as being too big (not surprising really as it is 173mb) - have tried using 7zip to extract files but it obviously isn't a standard format so no joy with that.

HoofeHearted

Seems it is Bullguard not liking it
http://www.arcsoft.com/Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4026

Kid_2

Not bad price, im sure you can find a camera a little cheaper but yea' im sure its worth it still.