Customer Reviews

Gooseneck Webcam

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I have owned numerous cams over the years and have not found a single one that is good. Its either driver problems, poor software or non-support of your equipment. All the cam's suffered from poor video quality (choppy an low resolution). I assume if you want a good cam you will have to pay about $200-$300. Here we are in 2011 and I have yet to see a reasonably priced good cam. The software included with this is terrible on Windows 7. It allows you no way we could find of just having a video picture on your screen with out the large window. Because of the stiff cable it will put serious stress on your usb port. I would run this with a usb extender cable to alleviate stress to your usb. This originally sold for about $30, yuk.

I was looking for a web cam easy to use and this is just the perfect product for me, it does not require additional cables or even software installation and works great with Skype, the reason why I needed a web cam. The video quality is not that good and the cable is not that easy to manipulate but in general I am happy with the product.

The webcam is good in terms of price versus performance. It's easy to use, and the picture is OK.

The camera hardware works as documented, you just need the driver which is on the cd. The software that comes with it is not worth loading. loads at startup, so it assumes you always want the camera available, but it can't even tell you have a built in camera also. i could not get the software to switch off the built in notebook camera and select the phillips gooseneck. fortunately, microsoft has built in software that will work and allow to select which camera to use. and i did check for and download the "improved" version that still didn't work.
if i were phillips, i'd be ashamed of such software, but the hardware will fit my need to see into tight places and is worth the money.