1) It wouldn't have seen a damn thing. Just black. The light levels a Titan are a fraction of those on Earth and the chip on any camera or camcorder you might throw on the side of a shuttle just wouldn't work in Titanian light levels.

2) Mass. It would weigh too much

3) Power. It would eat the batteryes

4) Data Budget. You'd get about 5 seconds of video before you swallowed the entire Huygens data budget.

5) Development time. The Huygens camera design would have been finalised in the Early '90s. That SRB camera didn't even exist then.

6) Science. Whilst pretty pictures are very pretty, and those SRB vids are VERY pretty indeed - a calibrated scientific camera can do calibrated science. An off the shelf video camera can't.

All the same arguments whenever someone says "My camera does colour in one shot and is 7 megapixels...why don't they send that to Mars / Titan / Jupiter / Venus / where ever"

Doug