Whether in homes, factories, offices, airports, or on the street, it's hard to imagine a place where Philips is absent. What Philips wants is to make your life and work easier -... more
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your monitor andstay there. The camera head pivots 360° to capture everyimage. It also comes with an additional multimedia headset forecho-free chatting.
Whether in homes, factories, offices, airports, or on the street, it's hard to imagine a place where Philips is absent. What Philips wants is to make your life and work easier - and more fun! And Philips continuously explores new ways to improve products and to offer innovative products to its consumers. Philips. "Let's Make Things Better".
Advantages: Relatively cheap and robust Disadvantages: Poor picture quality
...The PhilipsSPC 200N PC Webcam, I only recommend it as a budget camera!
The Camera's User guide is VERY easy to follow - only two pages of instruction in each of 8 languages! Installation takes minutes.
Camera (about 4X6X8 cm and as light as a feather) plugs into a USB so does not require an extra power supply. It is very robust, but being so light it tends to be dragged to the side by the weight of its own wire!
Flat base so cannot be mounted onto a laptop or speakers. Looks just like the image on the box…
Picture quality is painfully bad, and cannot cope with ANY movement, but most budget webcams are like that…
Microphone not inbuilt but a massive one you have to keep right in front of your moth is included.
Software you can use to take videos with the camera is included in the installation CD, but video quality is...
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Advantages: Great picture Disadvantages: Not compatible with MS Vista
...A very neat little web cam with a great picture - even in low light conditions. The sound works really well, as does the face tracking feature (it tracks your movement to keep your face in the centre of the shot). This is definitely an impressive cam.
Now the negatives...whilst not really problematic the mount could be a little more positive, but the biggest drawback for me is that whilst my 6 month old cam worked fine on Windows XP, it definitely does not work with MS Vista. Having just purchased a new desktop already loaded with Vista I had not expected Philips flagship web cam not to work with it. It gets worse, as having contacted Philips they are saying that they currently have no information as to when a driver will be released....
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Advantages: great colour quality, efficient customer assistance by philips Disadvantages: they all have a faulty power supply (read my story)
...I thought this review needed some more info in order to be more helpful for the readers/buyers.
REVISED REVIEW
I want to start this review with a strong suggestion: to avoid this philips monitor model (170C5BS). I had lots of trouble with it and they only ended because it was finally replaced with a different model. I let you read my experience which I hope will help you to have an opinion about it.
FIRST OF ALL SOME PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS:
12ms response time (On-Off)
SXGA, 1280 x 1024 resolution
sRGB ready
TCO '03 compliance
Lower power consumption (so low that had problems with it, read on...)
Embedded power supply (meaning that if it's faulty or has problems you have to send back the whole monitor and this is what happened)
Smart...
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