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We’ll go ahead and say the obvious here: Audiovox claims this thing is made for DIY installations, but we’d highly advocate hiring a professional if you’re completely green at this stuff. You know, considering the immense importance of alignment and the like when it comes to a rear-view back-up camera system. Anyways, the wireless ACA250 kit provides drivers with a color camera (110-degree viewing angle), infrared LEDs for night vision and a monitor that can be plugged into an AC adapter or hard-wired. Not too shabby for $129 — assuming you’re up to the task of putting it all together, that’s. Full release after the jump.

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Filed under: Digital Cameras, HDTV, Portable Video

We got a quick look at JVC’s new AVCHD camcorders today, the GD-HD40, GZ-HD30 and GZ-HD10. Of note, the HD40 comes complete with a dock for extra hookups like FireWire, and the HD40 and HD30 can shoot video in MPEG-2 for higher quality and easier editing. JVC has done some serious work on noise reduction on all of the cameras, but from the samples shown, it comes at the cost of detail — some of the vids we saw looked more like watercolors or 3D renders than true video. Hopefully that’s something you’ll be able to configure to your liking, and we’re glad JVC is leaving MPEG-2 on here to avoid compression that might exacerbate the problem further. That stated, most users are going to be very pleased with the kind of color and low noise they can get at night or in badly-lit rooms. The cameras are certainly small for their feature sets, but at about a pound apiece they feel pretty heavy for their size. Otherwise the build is standard JVC fare — not too fancy, not too plain. We also got a opportunity to peep some over JVC’s other new consumer gear, so check it out in the gallery below.

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If you were even the slightest bit intrigued by our hands-on with Samsung’s SC-HMX20C HD camcorder, you might be interested in seeing what we thought about it after a good bit of shooting. That’s right, the full review is ready and waiting over at Engadget HD. So, it’s a date?

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Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras, Gaming

We’ll make this quick since we’ve already given you all the details related to Sony Ericsson’s Motion Gaming F305 and S302 Snapshot. The F305 quad-band GSM/EDGE slider relies upon a motion-sensing accelerometer (pictured bowling), dedicated gaming controls, and stereo speakers to create the gaming experience — an experience hampered by a wee 2.0-inch, 176 x 220 display. It ships with a standard 8-hour battery with an optional CPP-100 backup battery pack to extend play. The quad-band GSM/EDGE S302 Snapshot is just a regular ol’ candybar with 2 megapixel sensor, pic light, video recording, and plenty of build-up trying to position it as a camera first, phone second. Both hit in Q4.

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