Video Recording Sunglasses – How to Be a Savvy Consumer

It’s easy to “lie” in the world of consumer electronics.  Companies know which buzzwords to use to make products sound good.  In the new and exciting Video Recording Sunglasses market, there is certainly a lot of misleading information out there.  Let me try to clear some of this up so that you can make a good buying decision.

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A lot of sunglasses that can record video claim to be able to record in HD.  HD is a classic buzzword and a lot of people don’t even know what it means.  I just checked out good old Wikipedia for some insights and got surprised myself.  Check out this:  HDTV

As you can see, it’s actually “HDTV” that means “High Definition Television”.  ”HD” actually stands for “Hard disk”.  So if there is a memory card in a camera, I guess some people are calling it HD.  This is a massive cause for confusion and leaves a lot of consumers confused and upset.

High Definition video recording needs at least 720p.  There is now 1080p and beyond.  One concern here is, and I haven’t been able to figure it out, is that many of the smaller companies are claiming to record video in 720p even when they can’t.  The only thing I can think of is that the companies are too small and aren’t really worried about getting sued.  It is different if some no name brand with one model of glasses says 720p or if Sony says it.  You don’t need to have heard of the brand necessarily, just look around at sample videos and how many different models of video sunglasses there are.  If there are several, that is a good sign.

Another very important thing to look into is which manufacturer is making the technology.  It’s a fact that the top few Taiwanese companies in this space are the only guys even capable of making high quality video recording equipment.   No one else could even if they tried.  All the lenses from Apple, Sony, Fuji, Cannon, and top companies like that are made in Taiwan.  Taiwan is expensive compared to mainland China.  It’s just that the companies who care about high quality will pay the premium.  It’s worth it.

Top video sunglasses are expensive to even make, even in mass production.  If you can buy them online for under 200 USD, they are certainly bad.  No company sells products for less than what they cost to make.  Even if you see good looking sample videos, it’s absolutely not necessary that they were taken with those glasses.  It’s so easy to be a faker in this market.

Many of these smaller companies are pushing their 1 or 2 products on Ebay, Amazon, and maybe their own little low budget website.  They make some video clips on Youtube and get some sales by over promising and under delivering.

The cheap companies could start charging more for their products to disguise their poor performance.  As a savvy consumer you should be able to sniff out this kind of trick out from a mile away.  Shop around online for a bit and check into what other people are saying.

A friend of mine bought some no name “spy glasses” off Ebay last week and they were the worst thing we’ve ever seen.  They looked nothing like the photo and they could only take video if the lighting was perfect.  The quality was still bouncy, choppy, and by no means High Def.  They eyepiece can’t be a tiny pinhole camera either.  There is just no possible way that a pinhole camera could every record in true high definition.  It’s physically impossible.