Anandtech did a review of 4 Ultra-compact Digicams and, like just about everyone else, they paid absolutely no attention to the quality of the movies.
As I’ve written before, I think ignoring the movie capabilities of the latest generation of digicams is a big mistake.
With their compact “go-anywhere” form factor and their ability to do 640×40 @ 30 or 60 frames per second for minutes at a time, they are a hell of a lot more handy than your average camcorder and reasonably competitive quality-wise.
Since my brother picked up one of the Canon SD400s, I’ve received many more clips of my nephews than in all the years they had a FireWire capable camcorder and they look pretty good too.
A camcorder will likely always have better low-light performance, better audio and a wider range of optical zoom, but I think the movie featuers on digicams are already more useful for most of the footage consumers capture.
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