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Advantages: Great quality picture and video
Disadvantages: Quite pricey compared to other webcams

... I brought my Creative Live! Cam Video IM Pro last year (2006) around about the Easter period as I had been using the MSN messenger service for quite a while and a lot of my friends and family had them and so I thought that it was about time I got one too. Price I first brought my Creative Live! Cam Video IM Pro at a PC world in Canterbury, it cost me about £30, however this was quite a while ago and I have looked around and on the internet ...
... Picture The Creative Live! Cam Video IM Pro can take photos at an incredible 1.3 mega pixels which is one of the highest quality still picture capture for webcams and you'll be hard pressed to find better. Video There is additional free software that comes with this webcam and on it are several functions, one of which is video capture, this webcam records video in an amazing 800 x 600 pixels at a rate of 30 frames per second which ... Read review

Advantages: simplicity, price
Disadvantages: none for this price range

...software, drivers and masks are available from creative website. Can strongly recommend it to people with short budget. Is not the best top quality but does it all and works. Haven't had any technical issues and cable is long enough. Please don't forget to rate this review. ... Read review

Advantages: Nice price tag, reasonable picture, very easy installation, mic
Disadvantages: fuzziness, limited options, colour can be distorted

I would mainly recommend this to either someone who would like a good-value-for-money webcam for either a holiday or just talking to friends on IM. If you're not either of these then it's also good for people who don't have a very technical grasp of their computer. It's very, very simple to set up. It attaches easily by USB and then just takes a CD to install. It's quick, simple and does what it says on the tin. For it's price, the picture is good ...
...colour is decent, (though it can sometimes be too bright). A nice little addition is the microphone, which I never had any problems with, and the function of taking videos and pictures. However, if your intention is to make videos to put online, or you really want an excellent quality picture, then this product isn't for you. It's cheap, but won't satisfy you if that's what your looking for due to varying levels of fuzziness. And the limited options ... Read review

Advantages: Good cost considering specs
Disadvantages: Didn't work

I searched around the internet quite a lot looking for the perfect webcamera for me...something at a decent cost, under £30, good resolution, ability to take still photos at 1.3 megapixels etc. Quite standard nowadays, but a good cost and a well respected brand. I took it home, installed everything perfectly until the moment the software told me to plug in the webcam - at that very moment, I was confronted by the Blue Screen of Death. My computer ...
...my webcam, my laptop just restarted. I never managed to see the picture at all. What is worse than the camera not working at all is the appalling customer service. I emailed their technical team from the website about three or four times over the course of a month, telling them my problems with increasing detail. I never ONCE received a reply. Unfortunately, because I had to practically tear the box open to get the camera out, I could not even return ... Read review

Advantages: mutli mount option, great picture quality
Disadvantages: long winded installation, but qorth it

Excellent picture quality.... A little long winded install as there is a huge software bungle to do. The software allows face tracking which enables the camera to zoom and alter, so your face remains central.. I presonally have turned it off, as I thought it was a little distracting for the picture to constantly alter is size. Can be used as a motion detector, still camera, and video camera. Multi purpose stand, which can allow attachment to ...
...of the picture even under some quite dark lighting conditions. The Video recording function, allowing you to record and save clips of any length is very good, and the files can easily be emailled as the file size is reasonable. I have used the camera with both MSN messenger and Yahoo messenger, both work easily and simply. Giving a good result. There is a backlight control if you've got strong lighting behind you to resolve shadow issues. There ... Read review