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Last summer I took a look at the single-use digital camera from CVS, and I was pretty impressed. Now the pharmacy has upped the ante with a digital camcorder that lets you shoot 20 minutes of video. Having taken it for a spin and then having had my footage turned into a DVD at the CVS photo-processing counter in about an hour, I'm even more psyched...
...Simplicity reigns. There's just four buttons on the whole device: Power, Record, Playback and Delete. You can shoot as many clips as you want, until you reach 20 minutes of accumulated footage. The catch is that you can only playback and delete the last thing you recorded. Sure, it's a bit of a bummer that you can't select out your least favorite clips from a day of shooting, in order to give yourself more space for evening festivities. But at least the Kubricks among us can shoot and re-shoot and re-shoot the blowing...
...Mind the economics: If you've got more than five events per year that you want to shoot for DVD, then there are other means that make sense. However, if it only costs around $45 to preserve an occasion, and to do it with very little hassle, I'd imagine there are many people with no camcorder aspirations that would nevertheless be eager to put this...
...whenever Chino gets out of jail from his latest weapons-possession charge, he will still have nowhere to go but the gang neighborhood, nobody to hang with but his homeboys--and nothing to do but shoot at his enemies...
...DATING ON DEMAND Comcast Digital Cable customers can watch video profiles and then log on through Hurrydate.com to contact prospects they find attractive. Users who want to star in their own digital dramas can shoot and upload video personals. --By Jeremy Caplan