With all this excitement around video plugins for Skype delivering a great experience for 1:1 communications, I thought that after upgrading my software, I'd upgrade my hardware as well.
I bought my first webcam probably 5-6 years ago. I still use it, although it's slightly broken, hence I only use it at home where it sits on top of an LCD screen: it's a Philips ToUcam 740K. The quality is really great, and its recognized with almost no problem by many linux distributions. I'll keep using it.
Then I went mobile last year I think. I got myself a small webcam for my laptop: a Creative Notebook something. The quality was not good (is till not good), as the image is "snowy". Hence while buying some other gear yesterday (a TV tuner for my computers - USB 2.0, another DivX DVD player, some 2*8 electrical plug adaptors, some toner and ink replacements for my printers... a perfect geek saturday morning), I asked for the best notepad webcam they had and got myself the latest Logitech Quickcam for notebooks Pro. Waow, even more expensive than the DVD player ! I got a very extensive explanation on CMOS and CCD captors in the cameras, blah blah blah, etc.
Anyways, haven't tried it yet, but I'm already glad that I'm living on the edge with the best video plugins for Skype (hence best codecs around), and the latest in hardware, for great & seamless video communications.
