The good: This is a revolutionary camera system allows affordable professional filming while coming in a small pack and has everything that you need to get going. The wireless remote and software package included is new to the market. This kit is all good!

The bad: The memory can only be extended to 2Gbs max.

The Action Cameras bottom line: This is the greatest camera to hit the market and the price shows the quality of it, which is fair because of the value that is received in the quality of the POV.1

The desire for helmet and POV (point of view) video footage has gone through the roof lately. Just about every action sports video including mountain bike, mbx, skateboard, ski, kite-boarding, and others include some sort of POV footage that puts you and me in the cockpit.

Of all the cameras out there the V.I.O. POV.1 Camera Package is the Holy Grail! It shoots at a 720 x 480 resolution at 30fps.

This camera set up is truly an all-in-one full solution so that once you get the kit you can open it up, set it up and get out there recording! The benefits that this camera offers over any predecessors is nearly endless, but just to name a few of these:

It has a wireless remote control that works up to 12 feet away from the POV.1 unit
It comes with a 1Gb SD card, “try-me” batteries, and a whole host of mounting solutions
It is a solid state recorder so won’t be bothered by high vibration sports
The recorder is waterproofed to 1 meter and the camera to 3 meters
There is a LCD screen on the recorder so you can see exactly what you are filming
You can set it to record in a loop so that you’ll never miss anything
It’s been designed for one handed use (but we prefer using the remote)
It comes with some great video editing software for easy sharing of video

Since Action Cameras became the UK distributors in March of the all VIO products including the POV.1, we have been very excited using it as much as possible and have entered into a sponsorship deal with the Honda British Super Bikes team. We were with the Honda guys in Almeria, Spain to shoot some footage for the race team which you can see by clicking here.

Recording with the kit is very easy after you’ve flipped through the start-up guide that comes inside the pack. Putting the batteries and SD card in is tricky as the kit is waterproofed and the best way to do this is to lever out the piece with a pen or key so that it pops out easily.
Now that you’re ready to go you can get about three hours from the 4 AA batteries, you can use lithium-ion batteries to get 7x longer battery life and these are not affected by cold weather like normal AA’s. The POV.1 takes a 1 or 2Gb SD card; the 2Gb will give you an hour and 26 minutes on the highest resolution of 720×480 but if you set it to the lowest res you’ll have 15hours and 44minutes recording time.

The POV.1 comes in an all-in-one pack similar to a CD zip-around case that holds everything that you need. It even has a section to keep the software CD safe and another compartment to keep all the mounts and other bits and pieces neatly away.

This truly is a revolutionary kit and with the price being the remaining factor holding some back form getting their own kit, we do believe that for the DVD quality footage and the overall value of the POV.1 package is providing you, the price is well justified by the value.