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hey guys John record your here ever since Apple updated their iPod nano line to include video camera and video capture capabilities there's been a lot of talk about how the miniscule Nano it's gonna stack up to the king of the quick video recording he'll the flip Mino in this case it's the flip Mino HD so before we get to the comparisons and put them side-by-side and see how they look let's go run through the specs very quickly first we have the iPod Nano which will run you 149 for an 8 gigabyte model or 179 for a 16 gigabyte model it's got a 2.2 inch diagonal display that can show pictures or videos whatever you're looking at and a 240 by 376 resolution records video at 640 by 480 and up to 30 frames per second does not capable of taking still pictures by the way that's been a point of contention so in the other corner we got the flip Mino HD this suckers gonna run you $1.99 for a four gigabyte model it's got a 1.5 inch diagonal display which shows this video at 528 by 1:32 and the really the most important feature is that records in HD at 1280 by 720 let's go ahead and put these two side-by-side first video you're going to see is the iPod nail alright so this is the iPod Nano we're going to use Mercedes again as our test subject so you can hear the audio you can see the video quality I'll give her some pets so she doesn't feel lonely you can see what it looks like with the Nano overall quality is generally pretty impressive especially for such a small and inexpensive device so give another couple seconds of video here guys can see again what the quality looks like she likes me to scratch your butt next up let's take a look at how the flip Mino HD compares to the Nano so here is the flip Mino HD shot in exactly the same place at exactly the same time of day with the same amount of lighting you can see what the quality of the video looks like and once again Mercedes is our test subject so you can the audio quality you can see what it looks like I think she's a little bit shy from being on camera what do you think she loves scratches so here is again the flip Mino HD so as you can see there is a significant difference in equality between the Nano and D flip Mino HD and that's to be expected the minnow HD is a standalone video recording device who use the only function is to record HD video and it does it very well in a very thin package also has that built-in USB connection the Nano on the other hand is really a jack-of-all-trades even coming in at a lower price point it's video recording capabilities as you can see are actually relatively impressive when you take into consideration the size of the device you can put them side-by-side I mean there's really no comparison as to how they stack up I think that the video recording on the Nano is certainly not as good not up to par with the minnow HD I think that the audio quality on the Nano though is actually as good if not better than the minnow HD the Nano is a lot of things it's an iPod it's a pedometer it's a voice recorder it's now a video recorder it's got a lot of functionality for a very very very slim price if you're looking for a device that does a little bit of everything if you want to make sort of some short YouTube videos you're not concerned about HD quality then I think that'd be well and then it was a great way to go if you're only looking for device that records a video and you really want HD quality well then the minnow is going to be a good way to go if I have to pick one I'm gonna go with the one that I can do everything on and I got it fake banana so you guys agree or disagree would you rather have the minnow HD we'd rather have an iPod and do a little bit of everything for you leave a comment or video response if you're curious as to what you guys think I'll see you guys in the next video for exclusive content check me out on Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and Flynn more got TechnoBuffalo launching Tuesday September 15th check out TechnoBuffalo come by