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2.0 stars
"Conflicts with my TV tuner card but still an adequate Webcam"
Pros: Pretty much average quality in all areas but that's to be expected from a webcam.
Cons: Installation not for novices. Just hope you don't have any technical difficulties with it. It's a pain to get any support. It conflicts with my TV Tuner card
Summary: This was my first webcam purchase. I decided to listen to CNET's reviews even though the User's opinions showed a completely different score. I actually read one user's opinion that said it might conflict with a TV Tuner card but I thought that wouldn't apply to my tuner card. I have a Hauppage WinTV 350 installed in my pc.
I installed the software the first time and everything seemed to go great. There are two steps to the installation, one of them comes after a reboot. The installation is not very straight forward, I was somewhat confused and I consider myself to be above average in my knowledge of computers.
Everything worked great for a few months. The image quality is pretty good for a webcam and the microphone is above average in my opinion. My friends all have webcams and this one beats theirs hands down.
I moved just a month ago and when I set up my computer with the webcam, it stopped working in MSN messenger which is the service I use. Instead of the camera turning on when I tried to have a video conversation, I got video from my TV card. There are no input options in Messenger to change to input so I can't figure out how to fix this problem.
It seems to work fine in Yahoo! Messenger, but none of my friends use Yahoo, so I'm pretty much screwed. I'm hoping Google's Messenger will add video service soon.
Other than this minor conflict, the camera seems to be adequate in all other areas. I would recommend it if you don't have a tuner card and if you aren't a novice computer user.
