Veo Velocity Connect - Web camera - color - USB

by Veo

Product Details

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• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• ASIN: B00007FHEM
• Item model number: PIE-VEO-D-0100
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 12, 2006

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The Veo Velocity Connect takes the latest computer technology to its limit through the power of USB 2.0. Experience megapixel images, full-motion video, precise color, image accuracy and cutting-edge software that even the most discerning of Web cam users will appreciate. The Veo Velocity Connect takes Web cameras to a whole new level.

An ultra low-light lens provides excellent picture quality in even the most challenging conditions. Use the easy-touch snapshot button for instant or time-delayed snapshots with megapixel quality. The refined focus dial allows you to fine tune your image to an art. Mounting is simple with the interchangeable clip that lets you attach the camera to anything from one- to three-inches thick. And when your camera's not in use, a quick-snap lens cover keeps the lens safe.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quick in Operation Overall & Excellent Digital Resolution, July 6, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Veo Velocity Connect - Web camera - color - USB (Accessory)

This Veo camera has been getting poor reviews from alot of people on the internet...not just here. In my opinion the Velocity Connect's use of the new USB 2.0 link speed standard increases overall system operation in a noticable manner, namely in its capability to capture SXGA resolution or 1280x1024 pixels (which equals 1.31072x10^6 pixels ~ 1.31 megapixels) images and high video refresh speeds or frames per second (frames/sec or FPS). Albiet, the touted 30 FPS which would be equivalent to what a person would see on TV or watching movies (30 FPS is the de-facto standard frame rate) is not quite apparent. Nonetheless, at the second to highest video setting, 320x240 pixels, the video capturing is nearly realtime with only a fraction of a second in lag time.

Depending on how you look at things, there is a notable product issue: a significant amount of illumination* is required for the Veo's CCD optics to catch all the reflected light off the image to be captured. I found approximately 5 000 to 6 000 lumens, which is equivalent to the light intensity of two 100 Watt light bulbs, to be enough for clear image quality.
*A major concern of the critics of this camera believe this to be a significant issue enough as to return the unit and subsequently give low ratings. So, owners must use alot of light......so does any quality image/video recording device. Examples include Hollywood movie sets, anything filmed on TV, and all conventional film cameras; film cameras have high intensity flash bulbs. I wish this had night or infared vision....oh, well I'll just have to wait awhile.

The Veo's 60-70%, on a 1.47 GHz/Athlon XP on a MS/XP/OS, usage of CPU processing resources and 70-75 Megabytes(MB) should also be noted.

To test the unit, I plugged it into my USB 1.1 ports and USB 2.0 ports to compare operability efficiency. It was clear that the USB 2.0 link speeds made the camera work most effectively. The new standard USB 2.0 has a bandwidth rate of 400 Megabytes per second (MB/s) as opposed to 10 MB/s of the USB 1.1 standard. It was clear that the use of increased bandwidth allows for fast operation.

I've tried using this camera with 5 different webcam applications(Logitech IM, CoffeeCup 3.0, Active Webcam 3.5, Eyeball 2.2, and the included Creative Studio-Connect) and it worked at about 85-95% efficient with regards to particular issues as locking up the OS, image quality, and just general interoperability. What kept this from a 90-95% rating from me was because of Eyeball 2.2. It had a hard time working with the camera and displayed poor video and image resolution.

Kind of a funny shape to it but it has a pleasant cool blue light which indicates that it's powered up. Useful interchangeble base mounts are also included. I likes this yo'. ;)

Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student
Texas A&M University

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor low-light performance, VERY high CPU, September 17, 2003

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M. M Magliaro "maxvideo" (Philipsburg, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Veo Velocity Connect - Web camera - color - USB (Accessory)

With a VERY bright light positioned right over your head, you can adjust the controls on this camera to do 24 fps on a USB 2.0 port, at 320x240 capture resolution. It will NOT do 30.

On a Pentium III 900 MHz machine, it uses about 85% of the CPU, which I consider to be inordinately high.

Under average room light, the picture is so dark that it is unusable. If you turn on the "low light" option, you get a good picture, but the frame rate drops to about 9 fps.

In a USB 1.1 port, it self-limits to only 10 fps, so be aware of this.

Installation on Win 2000 and Win XP went very smoothly.

Under bright light, the video image is EXCELLENT. But it is quite impractical to ever have the amount of light this camera really needs to perform well. I was sitting directly under a lamp, and it still wasn't really enough. Maybe two 150-watt photo floods would do it.

Compared to the Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000, I'd say the Veo has slightly better video quality. But the Logitech far and away gets my vote, because it uses about half the CPU of the Veo, and can do a full 30 fps, EVEN in low and average room light, and even at 352x288 as well as 320x240. The Logitech can even achieve this in a USB 1.1 port.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Webcam! Even better than the Logitech pro 4000, September 13, 2003

By A Customer

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This review is from: Veo Velocity Connect - Web camera - color - USB (Accessory)

I have many webcams and I recently got this one as a gift. It is amazingly great! However, at first I didn't know how to adjust the settings and thus make the video and pictures a bit dark. After the brightness, contrast, gamma, and quality... are set to the optimal setting, wow!!!!!!...it's like a good quality camcorder. My friend (from a foreign country viewing us on the webcam) was greatly impressed by the picture and video quality. He has the Logitech Pro 4000. He found mine is much better than his...