Creative Webcam NX

Broadband brings with it a whole new world of Internet. Online radio, VOIP (internet voice chatting) and video messaging are all now completely feasible. It was the latter two which prompted me to buy a webcam. A lot of my friends are not local to me and are spread throughout the world from England to Canada all the way down to New Zealand. A webcam would be an ideal way to be able to interact with my friends rather than simply using MSN Messenger which can make you feel rather detached at times. As it wouldn't be used too often, I didn't want to spend a lot of money, and it was really a bit of an impulse buy at my local computer retailer ...

Having family dotted all over the UK and beyond and regularly keeping in touch with them through MSN I thought the obvious next step would be a webcam so I could see their ugly mugs and them mine. Mainly it was so aunts and uncles can see the kids and how they are growing up very fast. I had no interest in shopping around and trying to buy the best webcam for the least expensive price, I just picked one and bought it. I knew very little about them so trying to choose the best would have been pretty much impossible for me but I feel the one I did pick (Creative Webcam NX) is exactly what I was looking for. It is compact, decent looking and was very ...

In February 2004 I was looking for a low priced, good make webcam for my internet video chat via yahoo & msn instant messengers. I looked all over the web for a webcam with reasonable image quality, it didn't have to be perfect just good enough for my video chat so when looking I came accross this webcam and the price was £20 odd pound so I purchased it and when I received it and set it up I was very impressed. I have used it loads for video chatting with friends and people on chat rooms. The image quality of 640 x 480 is about average resolution for the price range. I like it's small and compact stand design where I can fold it to stand on my main computer desk or ...