Review: Creative Live! Cam Connect HD

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:20:32 +0000

Creative (@CreativeLabs) Live! Cam Connect HD web camera, featuring a liquid crystal auto focus lens, noise-canceling microphone and Skype certification for 720p HD video calls at up to 30 fps. the Live! Cam Connect HD features built-in H.264 hardware video processing to ensure smooth, fast video without compromising image quality or taxing PC system resources. The Creative Live! Cam Connect HD includes the robust Live! Central 3 software suite, which provides advanced video and audio effects, avatar creation, movie creation, desktop sharing features and remote monitoring capabilities from a phone or PC. Creative Live! Cam Connect HD Technical Specifications 720p HD sensor 1280 x 720 video resolution 8 megapixel picture resolution* 30 fps frame rate @ 720p quality Auto focus liquid crystal lens Integrated noise-canceling microphone Plug & chat with Windows, Mac OS X 10.5 and Linux 2.6 Snapshot button *software enhanced Over the pass few weeks of testing, i was a bit disappointed in the video quality. Recorded at 1280-by-720 in H.264 mode i found that the video quality had a noisy/grainy background and some times pixelated around my face. The auto-focus did work well but sometimes a bit over the top. Software side of things was not too bad, i like the fancy features like visual effects and voice affects, plus the ability to edit your video and upload to YouTube and Fackebook was a big plus for me. The only downside to the software is: it only works on windows and not on the mac. This is not a big deal as the hardware works on windows and mac, but i would like to see the software side of things work its way to the mac, as you can have a lot of fun with the visual effects and voice affects and i do think it be a good upgrade for creative to do sometime down the line. Putting all that aside, i still thing the Creative Live! Cam Connect HD is not a bad webcam, it would be a good upgrade from vga webcam’s and many built in webcam’s that you find on some laptops. Follow us: Site/Blog: http://www.geekstech.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/GeeksTech Facebook: http://facebook.com/GeeksTech Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/GeeksTech EmpireAvenue: http://www.empireavenue.com/geekstech Blip.tv: http://www.blip.tv/geekstech Podcast: http://podcast.geekstech.co.uk

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