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Creative Preps 5 Megapixel Camcorder

Creative Technology today unveiled for the Singapore market a new mini digital camcorder with portable video player capabilities. The new Creative DiVi CAM 525D is priced at $229 and will be available in June.

The Creative DiVi CAM 525D, said Creative, sports a five-megapixel CCD sensor with motion stabilizer technology and real-time recording from a TV or other external video source. It is able to record MPEG-4 movies in 640 x 480 (VGA) resolution at 30 frames per second and has a night mode for shooting videos under poor lighting conditions. The DiVi Cam 525D also is setup so one can view the video as it is being recorded on the digital camcorder’s 2.5” LCD screen.

Other features of the CreativeDiVi CAM 525D include 11 megapixels total when using in-cam interpolation, a variety of shooting modes, 8x digital zoom, MP3 player functionality, voice recorder functionality, USB 2.0 connectivity, a rechargeable battery, 32MB of internal memory, SD memory card support and a built-in Web cam function.

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