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Summary: Before you buy, read Creative's customer reviews
Review: Creative Labs is months behind in providing any kind of real support for the Webcam product. There are no FAQs, for instance, on the Webcam product.I went to the company's newsgroups and was *astonished* to see the large number of complaints about the Webcam from their own customers. Worse than that, I was stunned when I realized that not a single Creative employee had responded to these complaints! These are signs that a company is not listening to its customers, has no execution skills, and ultimately, probably will not survive. The stock price seems to indicate that the market is making its clout felt. To all Creative customers out there -- thank you for speaking up so that I could make an informed consumer choice this Christmas. I'm off to buy Intel's or Logitech's products.
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Summary: for the money is the best buy!
Review: I am on my second Creative Labs usb web cam, My first was the wab cam II, Now I have the web cam III. I only bought the cam III because I gave my cam II to my sister. I have had no Problems with either one. I would buy another one.
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Summary: Do Not Buy The Camera If You Have A Labtop!
Review: I bought this cam because of the quality and I read that it worked well with fast moving objects. What I did not know was that my laptop dose not supplies adequate power to the camera. I found this out when I called the tech support and they told me that it might not work with the laptop because of the power supply.
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Summary: An OK Webcam
Review: I bought this camera about 5 months ago and was really excited, considering this was my first web-cam. It has worked reasonably well throughout this time. The only complaint that I have with this cam is that when I activate the camera software it deactivates my Internet connection. Other than that it has been a great camera for not only the advanced user but also the novice. The picture quality is not bad and for the price you really can't ask for much more. As for the software it was also easy to install and to use.
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Summary: Support under Linux is superb
Review: I bought this webcam primarily for video conferencing - but since then I have set it up as a permanent webcam at my home. It runs faultlessly on a AMD K6-300 Linux box, serving up to a web server. I have used the Linux drivers ov511, using vgrabbj to serve the pictures up to the web server. If this is the sort of application you want this for, this camera is great.
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Summary: HORRIBLE!
Review: I build computers as a hobby, so I have a lot of experience getting things to work and tweaked. First of all, the manual is absolutely the worst! It tells you to install the drivers from the disk with the wrong instructions. By trial and error I finally figured out what folder on the CD the drivers were in. I am really surprised at Creative on this deal. What a cheap camera! Honestly, it should come as a prize in a cereal box. I have used Creative products, Sound Cards, CD-Rom drives, etc. and they have all been very good quality. It's really too bad that the WebCamIII doesn't live up to Creative's standards. Finally I got the the thing to intitialize. But, it kept flickering and was erratic. It would view fine one second and the next it was fluttering and flickering. I attempted to tweak the cam settings, but the software is quite complicated and hard to adjust. I even changed my graphics card acceleration to no avail. I was able to get the picture quality a little better with the cam software settings, but it never looked quite right (washed out, no real color). The erratic display never went away. It would record .avi but then give a message that the video was corrupt. I would play it back and the flickering and flashing made it impossible to watch. Stills would work (sometime) but picture quality was inferior. Then it would freeze up regularly. I would have to close down the program and reopen to get it to work again. Horrible experience with this thing. Save your money. Fortunately, I am able to return it and get my money back. I am still shopping for a WebCam that will perform as advertised. Do not waste your money or time on this one.
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Summary: Great camera at a great price!
Review: I chose the WebCam III because of the software included. You can take snap shots or create .avi movies with sound. It will allow you to capture images at a preselected interval or capture video using motion detection. In either case, you can have it upload an .jpg image to a web site or e-mail you the image or both. Video-conferencing via NetMeeting is easy and cool.
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Summary: Great Camera, Easy Setup
Review: I found this camera to have a very easy setup and great picture quality. I am running it on a Windows ME machine and it works wonderfully..
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Summary: lots of trouble
Review: I had nothing but trouble trying to get the Webcam 3 to work. It is unstayble; one second it works the next it dosn't. The webcam controller would not load somtimes and toword the end (before I gave up on it) it wouldn't load at all. I updated drivers for it and tried all kinds of things but nothing worked. When it did work it gave good images for a cmose Chip and had a good software bundel but what good is it win the thing won't work. I read an artical on the web that tests products and thay had the same problems. My advise; invest in another cam.
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Summary: Problems From Installation
Review: I have been having numerous problems with the installation of my webcam 3. I also went to the Creative site to download the new drivers and I am stil lhaving problems. Sometimes the cam would not respond when I try to start up. At times it would and then the Monitor software would not work. Any help available will be greatly appreciated.
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