This is the PXL-2000 homepage, devoted to the PXL-2000 camera. PXL-2000 and
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please do not email me asking where to find pxl's - i don't know! thanks.

created on (and almost never modified since) March 22, 1996 I started the site because i searched Alta and low for a really cool pxl-2000 page. As you know if you're a fan, my keys opened no doors. How could a camera this cool be pageless? Wonder no longer. It's here. N E W S Hold on there, Mom! Before you send me a question about the pxl, i made a Frequently Asked Questions list and put all my old answers to people's questions into html format. Please look through there to first. Chances are that someone else had the same question as you and it has been answered already. New gear uploaded! Wed Jul 25, 2k1 : someone just made this: a Yahoo pxl group. someone just mailed me this: PXL-2000 message board I rebuilt the mailing list archive, so all non-subscribers (and subscribers who delete) can catch up on back posts. the index is threaded, web-based, and oh-so sexy. More dope publicity. (first discovery and now this? these people are loving us. i'm gonna stop giving out my phone number... =) pathfinder's section on the pxl, with a screenshot and link to this page. some really rad publicity for us and the pxl from the discovery channel online! ( cool! ) sk911@megsinet.com contacted me to tell me that he can fix pxl gear: "Service charges are normally $45 min. $35 for every hr. after the first hour unless it exceeds the value of the camera. About $125 is tops. I can add the audio and video output for direct VCR or deck recording. $75 Any other mod I can make estimate first. All Prices plus shipping. Another Girl, Another Planet-a pxl home video at screen-edge finally! The instructions for how to modify a pxl for rca video and audio outputs. thanks alex. the only person i know of who is actually willing to fix pxls (for $$$, of course), David Riddle. pixelporn: read a review of the contest...no results yet. ;) Now that a real pxl mailing list has begun, i've added a page so you can easily join it over the web. At Jason's request, i indexed the mini-gallery of pxl-grabs, using a new perl script i wrote. kyle cassidy's pxl page. Also! Toy lovers and fisher-price afficionados can now convene at the unofficial fisher-price homepage [expired link]. that is all. W H A T The PXL-2000 is a camera which was manufactured by Fisher Price in the eighties. It was marketed as a toy for kids, so they could play at making their own home movies. Unfortunately, the relatively high price ( ~US$100; high compared to a Go-Bot! ) didn't keep it on the shelf, coupled with a somewhat flaccid demand. The PXL-2000 is a completely self-contained camcorder. It records both audio and black and white video on standard chromium-oxide audio tapes. The picture is four-way letterboxed, or "gutterboxed," as you'll hear me say. The name of the camera/technology ( they're almost interchangeable ) comes from the highly pixelated picture; that is, it's very blocky looking. Imagine the old Atari video games on your grandma's tv. The perfect medium for low-budget movie-makers and experimenters... people like me. T E C H I have two pxl's, both of which i obtained free. (yes!) One is rigged to accept ac/dc via a curly 1/4" audio cord; the skinny adaptor cable that came with it was garbage. I stripped the tape roller and spindles, etc. to lighten it. I bypass the CrO2 audio format in favor of conventional videotape. I send the signal to an outboard source (currently my roommate glorybox's). If you look at my camera you can see the jack i installed at the bottom of the handle. The setup works really well, because i love the thick quarter inch jack that snaps in with a resounding CLICK. It wasn't designed to carry dc power, but i haven't had a problem. If you have a pxl you want to modify, send mail to the list. I'm also looking in to an infra-red modification. stay tuned... A R T Pixelvision is intoxicating. The way a hand blurs across the screen. A face exploding in a blossom of light and then sinking back into a puddle of shadow. The bizarre motion that is unique to the pxl brings me back again and again. The picture is dreamy, ethereal...ghostly. I love it. I hope you do too. For an example of a great movie that uses the pxl, visit october films' nadja pages , which showcase michael almereyda's great 1995 movie. also check out my promo-pak CD, with my short films rituals and monkeyboy, or my pxl gallery.