no pxls at FP

[RedElvis@aol.com]

hi there,



don't bother trying fisher price - i spent two hours on the phone talking to

them a couple of months ago.  yes they did have them at one time.  yes, they

did sell for $50.  no, they don't have them anymore, and they have not had

them for, literally, years.  trust me, i really scoured the company using as

many tricks as i possibly could.



depending on who you believe as your source, between 400,000-500,000 were

made over a production schedule of two years.  they stopped making them close

to ten years ago, don't take abuse well, and have a few parts that are very

wear prone (that's what you get from pulling a cassette mechanism at 9x

normal speed), so they're pretty rare.   mtv director types snapping them up

certainly isn't helping the situation...



on a related note, gerry failka was in san francisco this last weekend for

his "best of pxl this" festival (for more info on this festival, take a look

at kyle's web page) and said at the end of showing that he would accept

"faked" pxl videos for future festivals.  doing a rough digitizer with lots

of drop outs in something like premier/photo shop, etc. wouldn't be *that*

hard.  certainly not as tough as finding a cheap pxl...



also there seems to be growing interest in the tyco kid cam (for those of you

not already on it - this is NOT pixilated - think "7-11 shoplifter camera"),

and gerry implied that he'd accept films in this format for pxl-this as well.



it's nice to see so much activity on this list, although i'd appreciate it if

folks with snappy one-liners (i.e. "pxl 2000 for sale for $30,000") could

keep the clutter down.



more as it happens,

m.



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<<I bought mine reconditioned from Fisher Price a couple of years ago, and I

can't believe how much they are selling for now. It's funny. If I had

known, I would have got a couple!

anyway maybe they still do it? I doubt it. Maybe they have some lying

around at the factory...

-Ricardo Sheets

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