Cheap and very cheerfull if you're not running full-screen (Creative Webcam Plus)

Name: AndreBoyle

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Product:	Creative Webcam Plus
Date:	04/02/03 (214 review reads)
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Advantages: A good second-hand buy, Reasonable low-res quality, Groovy design

Disadvantages: Poor high-res quality.

I got this webcam with a mate at a local techie store. It was a factoryr efurb and cost him £5. Not bad we thought, can 't be too terrible for the money we thought. We were right, we thought.... after we got it back to his house.

We had to hunt down the drives which was a bit cumbersome as the device itself didn't tell us too much about it's exact model. A little trial and error and hunting on the creative labs website helpded out there though.

With the drivers installed we plugged it in and let rip with some quicksharp video conferencing on the LAN using netmeeting. The results for small images (320x240) were as good as any other camera. Where it let itself down a little was at 640x480 resoluton were it tended to look very grainy and pixely. The drivers supplied didn't deal very well with varying light conditions, something which I take for granted with the Philips high-res camera I use.

All in all this is worth the money as a refurd or eBay buy. I wouldn't be quite so convinced with the fullr etail price though.

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