Pure Digital / CVS Disposable Camcorder Flash Analysis

Pure Digital / CVS Disposable Camcorder Flash Analysis

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Ray sends us the scoop on the CVS disposable video camera- The king of the one-time digital camera hacks/analysis finally got his hands on a CVS Camcorder on Friday, the 24th via someone shipping him one FedEx. Within 18 hours, he had slurped the flash memory and has the unencrypted, XVID codec, 320×240, 30fps movies stored in the camera on his computer. Link.

0 thoughts on “Pure Digital / CVS Disposable Camcorder Flash Analysis

  1. ray@teamwidget.com says:

    D’oh!

    Re-reading the discussion of how this went down, it looks like he got the camera on Thursday the 23rd and within 18 hours of working on it, had the data and had written up the Flash Analysis page.

    The discussion of his findings and the timeline:

    http://camerahacks.10.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?p=2043#2043

    – Ray

  2. morcheeba says:

    Yeah, I had to sleep and put in a little time at work! Plus, the obligatory gawking at the camera before taking it apart.

  3. MrBrittle says:

    We need a howto.. :)

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