Of more interest is the ability to switch video playback from the TV screen to a device, where it syncs through the cloud.
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The LUMIX FH6 shoots HD video in Motion JPEG format while the LUMIX FH8 records HD video in MP4 format and incorporates a dedicated video button in its design so users can quickly and easily switch from capturing photos to recording video.
And there are times where I want to go back and forth between my game and a movie, or times when I want to be with my friends, and we'll be watching a movie, then we want to switch to a video game, etc.
To further simplify movie shooting, Live View is activated at a single flick of a dedicated switch, and HD video recording is achieved by a simple press of a button.
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And at any time during the review an operator can switch to see the original video footage.
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Even so, it would seem that full colour, fully flexible displays that can switch fast enough to show video are still some way off.
We still love showing off how a video clip continues to play after the Dynamic Display switch.
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To use it, you simply hit the down button on the remote twice while watching live TV, and from that point forward the DVR will buffer live TV on two channels instead of one. (The feature turns itself off after two hours.) We particularly like the ability to pause one channel, switch to the other and find the video automatically resuming from where we left off.
Users can simply slide the Instant On-Record switch into its locked position to immediately start capturing video.
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Finally, there's a mode switch, so you can quickly toggle between two configurable video presets.
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Soon, the video was being used online as a new target for the bait-and-switch Rickroll meme in which a user posts a link to something supposedly relevant or interesting but turns out to be a ridiculous or annoying video or image instead.
It would be a slight improvement to add a curtain over the virtual porthole (rather than a switch to shut it on and off), so that guests can leave the video running and wake up with the sense that the sun is "virtually" peeking though their curtains.
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