Digital Blue Tony Hawk Helmetcam

I bought one of these at a toys r us going out of business sale 3 or 4 years ago and thought it was a great cheap helmet cam. I suggested it to my girlfriend recently as its great for the money. She picked it up and its not compatible with VISTA! You need an older windows OS for the hardware, not the software, to be compatible! I emailed Digital Blue, the cheap company that makes the camera, and they say the camera's are too old for them to care about developing a driver for them to work with Vista! If you do not have an older OS this is a WASTE OF MONEY! If anyone reading this knows a way around this problem please comment this review so we can get our $50 worth!

We use these for filming POV fishing videos. They work awesome. Unfortunately, you have to be creative for attaching them to your hat, but that isn't what they were designed for. The software is easy to use too.

I have used mine for both biking and skiing. The video is jerky for biking and very jerky for skiing. It's difficult to watch the skiing, but the biking video can be a fun reminder. The built-in laser for alignment is too dim to be useful outdoors. The cam on the mounting pad clicks into different positions, and is a bit tricky to align, but will stay when set. The included (very thick) rubber band made for a good mount on both a bike helmet and a ski helmet. Field of view also seems a bit limited. Single button operation plus confirmation sound made it possible to operate with a mitten while on a helmet (on my head). As a novelty gimmick, it's fun to capture video you cannot get any other way, but don't expect much.

For $50.00 USD its really not a good buy.I did not like this item because if it is bumped it will freeze up and stop working and you will loose all the video you just recorded. Also when I got it I could not put the data card in because there was a little piece of plastic crammed down in side the slot.If it was shock resistant to small bumps then it would be a good buy but every time its bumped there goes all my filming. Pain in the butt.

I did not want to pay $50 for the cam not knowing the quality. Found it on here for $30 after shipping. Used it in my race car and was supprised in the quality even under the lights at night. You will need a bigger memory card if you want vids longer than 4-7 min. The sound quality not great, can get out of sync. Aiming the cam is a little dificult but the laser makes it a little easier. The program is easy to download vids but not as good for editing. If you are expecting a perfect quality camera don't get this. If you are looking for an inexpensive way to record some decent footage this is worth it. I would even pay the [...] that I was not willing to spend before I used it. Check out a sample here [....]

poor quality

Solved a noisy problem.

ok