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(More customer reviews)This is my first webcam. My wife and sister wanted to communicate. Overall, I wouldn't buy this again given what I know now.
The camera's image quality and features are excellent, but the software is buggy and the cheap little headset (that clips to your ear) is a joke. It broke after 10 minutes.
We then hooked up a little walkman mic while waiting for a new USB mic to arrive ($30 more) and began playing with the face tracking. It was good for a laugh. Maybe in the right environment it would be useful, but it would get confused by our ceiling fan, our TV a bright photo on the wall or just get stuck on a bright corner on the ceiling. It's not useful for us.
The failure of face tracking would be acceptable if the camera didn't repeatedly freeze. Most of the time just unplugging and plugging it back in and restarting the software would fix it, but sometimes a reboot is required. It has probably froze 50 times in the month we've had it. And all that gets old when working with other webcam newbies across country with kids on both ends and little technical experience on their side.
Setting up audio was no piece of cake either, with or without the broken headset. There are 3-4 places that sound is controlled on a PC, and the installation instructions, software help and Creative online help have absolutely zero to say about it. I had to do lots of digging through google for several hours to learn it.
We use the recommended service of SightSpeed. It's good for leaving video mails of nice quality, but very marginal live video quality. After a half dozen chats with my wife's relatives, we still haven't got both or our voices to transmit at the same time without breaking up. Maybe her computer is slow, I should check, but it's really not the kind of thing you want to work with your mother on for a holiday gift and expect to go smoothly.
After all this, I'm glad to have it and sure some of the remaining issues will be resolved, but I would not do it all over again. Life is short. I'd either buy a nice medium priced webcam or wait for the next version to come out.
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Let them see you too! The Creative WebCam Live! brings you closer to friends and family with live video over the Internet. Using high quality web cam sensor and lens, the WebCam Live! delivers amazing colors and fast frame rate. Grab 1024x768 resolution photos instantly and use the included software to create digital postcards, calendars, and more. Creative understands that clear voice is important when youre instant messaging, and that is why the WebCam Live! is bundled with a separate microphone.
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