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Every once in a while I get the notion that it would be cool to have a compact still and video camera to have along with me to capture those memorable moments in life. I don’t have a camera in my mobile phone and even if I did I’d want something a little better quality. I’m not expecting miracles in such a small form factor but something better than cell phone.

In the past I’ve read about Sanyo’s Xacti HD1 that records high def to SD cards using MPEG-4. Seems pretty cool to me. They’ve updated to the HD2 so I thought I’d see what the latest prices are. Maybe still out of my price range but I thought I’d look at CNet’s review again. While there I noticed the resellers:

Click to enlarge. What? Amazon has the Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD2 for less than $100?? Even if it’s image quality is about what the reviewer says it is I could handle that for $100 rather than $600.

Think this is for real? Seems like a pretty radical price differential. Guess I could just order one and find out.

Anyone out there have one of these?