Which?: Samsung HMX-S16 wifi camcorder at CES 2010

Samsung has launched a wifi enabled camcorder, the HMX-S16 at CES 2010 that allows you to stream live over a wireless network. Get the full report at http://www.which.co.uk/ces2010

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[dedosia]

I just got one and it does not send life video stream over wifi, only the recderded films , if any one hows how to use it to send live video stream please let me know

mohamed@egyptsat.com

[WhichWebsite]

@dedosia sorry but it looks like Samsung has dropped this in the final production version of the camera.

[WhichWebsite]

If you look in the video response from Samsung (below) it looks like the live wifi streaming has been changed to wifi playback streaming to allow playback of previously recorded videos over a wireless network.

[jessejohnston100]

I've got this camcorder right next to me right now. It does NOT support live streaming over wireless. It will upload over wireless to DLNA TVs (or Win7-WMP12) quite nicely, but the whole reason I got this was wireless STREAMING. This product is a no-go. Confirmed today buy Samsung support and they would not confirm if there would be a future firmware upgrade to support this 'feature' on this model camera: HMX-S16bn

[WhichWebsite]

@jessejohnston100 Thank you very much for notifying us of this issue - when the camcorder was presented to us at CES 2010 the wireless streaming capability was highlighted by Samsung representatives. However, it's possible that this was a prototype without the firmware as sold in shops later in 2010. We will contact Samsung for clarification on this issue

[WhichWebsite]

The device will stream video live over Wifi which could then be recorded on websites like uStream, this was demonstrated to us at the show. What was not clear at the launch was if you can record on the camera and broadcast at the same time.

[dash0r]

Does anyone have an idea which camcorder can actually stream live a video to a pc? Are there any?

[mamamike12321]

whats the difference between the hmx-s16 and the hmx-s16bn

[mansion2648]

@winny5501 I'm so interested with this camcorder! i wanna buy..

[choo2323]

@ladyjjy yes. sounds it's great camera.

[ladyjjy]

performance and image quality are pretty good..

[fizk]

@WhichWebsite They probably dropped the live video stream because it was so lagged.

[beaty713]

I think, S16 has great video quality for both low and high light..

[winny5501]

Wow. so interesting features! i like WIFI function!