1. A hand-held unit comprising: binoculars having a pair of monocular components, each component having an image viewing end and an image receiving end and defining a line-of-sight; and a digital video camera mounted to the binoculars with the camera lens' line-of-sight approximately parallel to the lines-of-sight of the monocular components, the digital video camera comprising: a receiving lens for receiving images; a digital memory storage unit integral with the hand-held unit; a display device; a processing system for generating compressed digital video images of said received images, storing the compressed digital video images in the memory storage unit and displaying at least one of the received or stored images on the display device; and means for controlling the generating, storing and displaying of the video images.