Review: Creative Vado HD
In many ways, this is the exact opposite of what happened to the company in the MP3 market. Creative sold one of the first, if not the first, commercially available digital media player for the masses. Apple came along and began their return to the top by borrowing from the idea that Creative had and improving it. Creative is doing essentially the same thing to the pocket video cam market. They were definitely not the first ones to the party- it’s fairly evident that Flip beat the Singapore company to market, but what Creative has done here is nothing short of astounding. By no means is the Vado HD perfect, but it’s simply blow-you-out-of-the-water video quality makes it among the elites in this growing market.
Score Review
- Included Extras: 90
- Design: 88
- User Interface: 94
- Video Quality: 91
- Audio Quality: 86
- Software: 78
Quick Rundown
- Superb video quality while standing still
- Decent feature set
- Generally good design.
- Gracious accessory pack
- Wide lens gives a much more realistic feel for the area
- Simple, but woefully underpowered, software
- Very easy interface
- Poor in bad lighting and while filmer is moving
- Extremely new users will be frustrated with no step by step directions
FINAL SCORE: 90/100
As a camera itself, it earns a high B by itself. However, once the video comes off the camera and onto YouTube or a DVD, it’s simply stunning how a camera of that size can produce such amazing images. The video quality by itself pushes the player into the A range. Just be sure to be standing still.
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- User Interface
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