"In a nutshell, Aiptek GO-HD Camcorder camcorder is inconsistent when recording to DVD. Fairly often, the screen will flash "disk error" and all of your prescious memories will be trapped on the disk, never to be seen by anyone. In other words, the camcorder will write bad data to the disk, making it unreadable. Unfortunately, once this happens, it cannot be corrected. Also, the battery life is no more than 10 minutes.

Save yourself some money and much dissapointment. Do not buy this camcorder (or anything Samsung). We've had one of thier digital cameras malfunction on us, too. "

    "Maybe I'm asking too much for a $250 product, but I feel a little misled. In addition to the MiniDVD record capability it has a flash memory where you can take video and pictures too. Aiptek GO-HD Camcorder came out this year, so I thought I could use a couple larger flash memory cards and mainly record video that route. Once I get this, I learn it only takes 2GB cards (no SDHC). So I buy 4 2GB cards and a 3pack of MiniDVDs, figuring I'd just use flash memory and that would be easy enough for most of my recording. The first time I put in an SD card and see that the screen switches from 16:9 to 4:3 on me. I discover that it only records 4:3 on SD. And I learn that it records in MPEG4 for SD memory (versus MPEG2 on the DVDs). I understand their MPEG4 has proprietary codecs, etc. I tried importing video into Sony Vegas, but found it would not read the format off of the MiniDVD. I tried re-ripping the DVD using DVD Decrypter, but that still did not work as once I dragged the video file into Vegas, I got only video (no audio). Also, in general I found the use of the MiniDVD's on this Samsung to be not very attractive. Like many users, I pause when recording. When viewing the recorded DVD, each pause at the end of a segment would show as a frozen image for 2-3 seconds before moving to the next scene, which is very annoying compared to using tapes to record to. Thanks to Amazon's generous return policy, I'm not at a loss. Am seriously considering going the High Def route, as it seems many of those products have less problems (based on reviews here) for someone like me who wants to be able to do some editing of the video I shoot. "

    "The zoom of Aiptek GO-HD Camcorder is great (a big step up from the 2x optical zoom I had when I had the Flip Ultra which suddenly stopped working), the only problem is holding the camera steady at high zoom. The still pictures are nice, and the video is decent quality. However, the camera doesn't do so well in dim light"

    "I played with Aiptek GO-HD Camcorder until I got it to work right.
Several adjustments had to be made to color/lighting setup to finally get the perfect pic & film. The disk that means the world to me is about to be trashed unless I can figure out a way to transfer or finalize this disk that I previously recorded. If you have suggestions please let me know. My camcorder only works with Panasonic DVD-R 1.4 GB one sided disk and it will finalize the disk to be viewed on another unit. This would not have happen if it would have came with the first disk as stated.
All in all I'm happy with this item... "

    "I got the Samsung DigitalCam SC-DX103 from retail for $277 (without tax) to record my brother play the piano @ the Manchester Music School. There was a $680 Sony HandyCam with the Dolby 5.1 surround sound and really high quality video recording, but I didn't want to pay $400 extra & I doubted if the sound quality (my DigitalCam has Dolby Stereo sound) would be significantly better on the Sony Handycam because most of the costs would go to the video quality & not audio. So, for my purpose of recording a concert, I thought that Aiptek GO-HD Camcorder should suffice.

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