Mattel Vidster

The Mattel Vidster is a digital tapeless camcorder that was marketed as a children's toy and sold around 2005.

It features a 1.1-inch (28 mm) LCD display, a 2x digital zoom, and records into AVI 320x240 video files encoded with the M-JPEG codec at 15 frames per second, with 22 kHz monaural sound.

The camera is powered by four AA batteries, and records onto SD flash memory cards (512MB maximum capacity).

Other features include a built-in microphone, a 1/8" jack for an external microphone, a 1/8" jack that provides NTSC composite video output with audio, a mini-USB connector for accessing the data on the SD memory card, and a tripod mount.

Since the M-JPEG video created by the Vidster is so highly compressed, the footage exhibits constantly visible macroblocks, or square blocky artifacts from encoding.