Samsung's new YouTube-friendly camcorder | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

"What makes the SC-MX20 YouTube-friendly is a special Web and mobile-shooting mode that simply tells the camcorder to shoot video with YouTube-optimized video settings."

The SC-MX20 will be available in August for $279.99.

(Credit: Samsung)

I do need a camera. I've been using my wife's 8.3 Megapixel Fuji for my projects and even though the quality is good, It doesn't come with a light and the video format is AVI, how old is that? The Samsung Camcorder however has a "Web/Mobile" mode that converts the video on the fly to .mpg4... I better rehearse my excuse to buy this...

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