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Article #11Re: Which is the best kit of video conference?
From: shemp
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 00:00
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On Sun, 10 May 1998 09:51:04 GMT, tomaspg@alumnos.etsit.upm.es (Tom�s Palacios Guti�rrez) wrote: > Thank you for reading this message. I have a 200MHz Pentium >with Windows 95 and I want to buy a camera to make video conferences >with programs like NetMeeting or VDOPhone. But I have some doubts >about which one is the best (between the cameras cheaper than 350$), >so I would be very grateful if somebody could write me about his >camera (Is good or is bad?, Which problems has?...). > I have, also, other questions: >--Which is best, an analog or a digital camera? >--Is it good to use a capture card or is better to use a parallel >connection? >-Can anybody can tell me anything about these cameras?: > Video Blaster WebCam > Tekram HOW-R-U Video Conferencing Kit > Connectix QuickCam > Best But Video Teleconferencing > Life View, FLY VIDEO > Speed Comm Video conference. > > Thank you very much, in advance, for your help, > >Tom�s Palacios Guti�rrez >tomaspg@alumnos.etsit.upm.es > > I have the usb Connectix VC...It has much better framerates than the Parallel version my buddy has and we have very similiar 233 systems...Plus the power and data use one small usb cable instead of that messy parallel setup....If you have a usb port go for it....We both use netmeeting via 500kb Cable modems with nice results...For 90 clams you cant go wrong..
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: ffa71,5d893c214c780522 X-Google-Attributes: gidffa71,public X-Google-Thread: fa2a6,5d893c214c780522 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa2a6,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,5d893c214c780522 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: 101647,5d893c214c780522 X-Google-Attributes: gid101647,public X-Google-Thread: 112138,5d893c214c780522 X-Google-Attributes: gid112138,public From: jets@1stplace.com (shemp ) Subject: Re: Which is the best kit of video conference? Date: 1998/05/11 Message-ID: <35567db5.11634940@news-server> X-Deja-AN: 352151377 References: <35557463.386766@news.jet.es> Organization: CableVision InterNetNews site Newsgroups: hepnet.videoconf,aus.comms.videocon,comp.dcom.videoconf,hannover.uni.videoconf,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video