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A wordy explanation of the Amazon meltdown.

Summary: the server-to-server messaging got corrupted. (Edit: God I wish I worked in a place that had proper server-to-server messaging).

You may have seen the Flip camcorder series.  (In short : $130-180, 620x480 @ 30fps but in a mutant MPEG-4 AVI codec that didn't pop directly into Quicktime)

Apparently Kodak is about to one-up it in a big way: $180, 1280x720(!) @ 60fps (!!!) straight into H.264 MOV files

The Flip has integrated memory and power (well, the Mino has an internal battery, the Ultra and Video versions also use exchangeable batteries) while the Zi6 uses user supplied memory and batteries.

Says, "Available in August" but Amazon has it slated for October.