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4 Comments for

Alternageek Episode 36: BrightKite And Flip Video

• deesadler | May 27th, 2008 at 8:30 am
  

  The Flip Video has some serious issues with their software. Many people once they take a video can not get the video off due to the software. They’ll give you a new camera, but the video is gone.

• techmonkey | May 27th, 2008 at 11:10 am
  

  Thanks for the info. I hadn’t heard about that particular issue. The people I know that own Flips have not had any issues with them.

• deesadler | May 27th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
  

  Since I am a user group manager, we all got one (hundreds of us) for the Flex/AIR launch event. We had a faulty one, and my new one is also faulty.

• techmonkey | May 27th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
  

  I checked online and Flip identified an issue with its firmware that sometimes caused an error when using the Flip Video software on a PC or MAC. They issued a firmware fix at:

  http://www.theflip.com/support_advisory.shtml

  Not sure if this is related to the problems you have seen, but maybe that’s why I have seen no issues. I don’t use PC or MAC so I don’t use the Flip software at all. I just pull the video off of the USB mass storage mounted filesystem when it’s connected to my Linux system.