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Meet the Flip Ultra HD. It’s my newest possession. It is a video recorder that solves every problem that you never really knew you had with other camcorders and luckily, you only have to pay $199 to buy Pure Digital’s newest camcorder. Trying to improve on a device that is successful because of its simplicity can be dicey. Adding features often means increasing complexity, as well as the heft of a device–and the UltraHD is bulkier than its predecessor. The Flip’s makers are keenly aware of these tradeoffs, which is why at first glance there appears to be only one major change in the new product: It now records in HD video (720p). But on closer inspection there are a number of upgrades included in the UltraHD that ought to make it even more popular than its best-selling predecessor, or the even sleeker Flip MinoHD. Read the rest of this entry »