In a surprising announcement late last night, The New York Times announced that the Flip Video Camera, which has taken the digital camcorder industry by storm, is coming out with a new Flip Mino HD. The camcorder is said to be 3.3 oz and according to the NY Times, the Flip has beautiful high-definition and amazingly performs well!

The Flip Mino HD will cost $230 which is one of the cheapest HD camcorders out there. As most know, a good HD video cam is easily $700 to $1,000 these days. If the Flip Mino HD truly creates great high definition video, this will revolutionize the HD industry.

For more information on the New York Times’ article, click here.

So if you’ve been watching the Moxie Mo Show, you know that I’ve been wanting to purchase a HD video recorder but I don’t want to spend the money that most of them cost. I’ve decided to take this discussion to the “blogwaves” and ask you, the educated viewers, on which HD camcorder should I purchase?

I’m wanting to spend no more than $300 to $400 and I realize this may present a bit of a challenge, but surely I can get a nice quality HD camcorder for that amount? Surely.

Cali Lewis, the host of Geekbrief, suggested I look into the Canon HV30 which does look like a great choice however it’s pricey.

Can any of you suggest any HD camcorders I should look into? The main purpose would be to film my podcast as well as my daily crazy, goofy shows which I’ve been currently filming with my Flip Ultra. I love my Flip. Here again was a great buying choice for me. It didn’t cost much at all, it’s super easy to use and the quality of the video isn’t bad at all for SD.

I truly appreciate your suggestions! They will be taken with great consideration.

So as many of you who know me, you know that I have two big passions in my life right now. I just turned 31 and maybe thats partially the reason that I have 2 passions. I’m finally growing up and realizing that a lot of us may have passions so why not share mine to you and vice versa?  My two passions currently are anything to do with HD TV and HD podcasts (they’re just too cool looking on our new plasma TV) and  my other passion (as I’ve written in other posts on here) has been  looking into myself and seeking change (radical and not-so-radical) so that I can be the best Jeff McCord that I can be.

So, for passion one, I wanted to share with you this awesome video.  It’s absolutely amazing what the JPL and NASA have found to be scientifically fact in regards to our universe.  I remember in third grade we thought Mars was nothing more than a science fiction’ish planet that was next to ours.  Who knew that life could have honestly existed on this planet (and maybe still does?)

Check this video out - I captured it from JPL’s HD Podcast: