Dynex MiniDV Head Cleaner
Item Purchased:
Location Purchased: Best Buy / 1000 W. North Ave. / Chicago, IL
Price: $25.99 + tax
Purchased on: 03/31/07
Review: I wish I could give you an accurate review on this insanely overpriced head cleaner. Alas, I cannot.
I rushed out to Best Buy on Saturday in attempts to save my severely sick (which I will be reviewing later this week, now that I’ve had the opportunity to use it for a few months) and save myself some money by not having to buy a new camcorder for my daily videoblog, The Consumatron Minute.
Unfortunately, my camera wasn’t just suffering from unbrushed teeth, but something more severe. I ran the cleaning tape through the machine for thirty seconds, just like the instructions said too, but came up with the same pixelated bars on my video screen that I had when all of this turmoil began. (Oh woe is me, the credit card holding, fully employed, un-starving American) So, in addition to paying far too much for electronics upkeep, I also ended up purchasing a Panasonic at closeout, get-this-off-of-our-shelves-so-we-can-sell-more-expensive-cameras-with-less-features-to-families-who-don’t-know-crap-about-camcorders price (which I will be reviewing in a couple of months from now after I have toyed around with it enough to know its strengths and weaknesses).
So, all I can tell you is that I have a camcorder maintenance kit that has not served to maintain anything quite yet. So the rating on this item will be based solely on the “get fucked” pricing I paid for it (I can get a brand new one off of Amazon.com for $10.87… That includes shipping!).
(sigh) Even I sometimes succumb to convenience pricing. Nobody’s perfect.
Rating: 1.5 / 5
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