Connecting Your Pocket Camcorder to A HDTV

Televisions have been around for the same time that camcorders have been. Although most camcorders that were around in the early days of TV were reserved for professional recording, the industry has come quite far to the place where normal people can now be a part of the creative video process, creating and sharing their videos. Pocket camcorders such as the bloggie series, and Flip Mino camcorders have video output capabilities to display and share content on the big screen. For the web user who loves to share video with friends and family in person, this option can be a deal breaker. Although most pocket camcorders come with built in software that allows users to edit and save video on the camera as well as for viewing on HDTVs.

There are some essentials to enjoying this video output and these two options are often overlooked extras. The video output port and HD video support. Although most do support HD videos, the actual picture resolution varies because there are several picture resolutions, 720p and 1080i, there are some pocket camcorders like the Sony’s are able to record video in 1080p which is Full HD.

To enjoy high-definition video, you have to record in HD keep the content in HD without compressing it and also being able to output via either an HDMI port of another connection port. Some pocket camcorders come with easy to use software packages, the Flip Mino series comes with in-built software that works on multiple OS systems. Some pocket camcorders can even load and reformat video for web uploading.

If you will use your pocket camcorder for sharing videos this feature can be the deal breaker. Also unless you plan to share your video on the internet, you will not want to compress the video or resize it using any built in software.

Making sure that your pocket camcorder is able to achieve what you want it to is very important and although most may consider pocket camcorders to be low risk items, there is no way to replace recorded videos once it has been recorded and memories are all you have left. Making memories and sharing them is the main reason most people have pocket camcorders to begin with.