Rating: 
Summary: Great Easy First Webcam and Cute Games for Kids
Review: Well, I loved my ezcam, but here is the down and dirty:
PROS:
1. Easy & Quick/mostly painless install
2. Cute fun motion games for kids included on the install cd, that uses motion sensing to play games, my 6 yr old niece and 8 yr old nephew loved it (at least for the first 5-10 min)
3. Excellent video & still capture software, so easy to use
4. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking (I can't count the number of times I dropped mine, either from adjusting my 17" monitor and whoops forgetting I had my camera on top OR while I was rooting around moving stuff on my desk and bumped my monitor, it never fazed this sturdy little cam).
5. Decent picture quality (but, only if you have plenty of light).
6. GOTTA LOVE THE PRICE!! I lucked out and got mine new at Office Depot a long time ago during a sale or discontinue clearance and only paid $20 bucks for it.
CONS:
1. Forget about support, but then that's the case with a lot of pc accessories now a days.
2. ONLY WORKS WITH WIN 98 OR 2000 (if I recall it took a bit of fudging around with the install but it wasn't anything really difficult), but because I now have XP, I have to buy a new webcam (okay so it also helps that I won't have to listen to all of my friends fuss about the pic quality - I'm not big on bright lighting).
3. YOU HAVE TO HAVE LOTS OF BRIGHT LIGHT or this little toy isn't going to show anything but a dark image and you won't even be able to make out your face. Natural sunlight doesn't count as it seemed to make my images have a rather yellow tint.
So, if this is a first webcam and you have a tight budget and your pc is running 98 or 2000 then I say go for it, it's worth the very small amount of money you will spend out of pocket to get a web cam that's inexpensive.
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