I've got one here and have been using it for the last two weeks. Fairly amazing is what I have to say. Optics are wonderful. Field of vision is very good. It has automatic focus and its fairly good. I had a few instances of where it strayed from my face (yeah..probably because I'm ugly)..but it corrected itself 1/2 second later. It has a built in microphone and pickup, noise suppression, and echo cancellation were very good. Of course, the new Movi software works really well. I tested between Movi systems and also out to legacy H.323 endpoints and I have yet to get that to fail.
The only thing I was not happy with and I haven't had time to delve into it was why I could not get inbound audio and video when I was behind a Polycom v2iu. Yeah..quite weird as Movi is SIP based and the v2iu should be seeing it as outbound originated traffic and it should traverse the v2iu. I actually had to hard code static nat statements to allow those ports inbound. Other firewalls....cheaper ones...had no issues and they traversed without any config changes. Not sure if the ALG engine on the v2iu was trying to do something with it...or the traversal logic in Movi was messed up.
But..getting back to the camera. It is heavy! Very heavy compared to regular webcams. It has this arm that you can position multiple ways and one way is to hang the camera on a lcd panel or a notebook lcd lid...but on a notebook, the camera is a bit heavy. But..the stand works really well for placing the camera on a flat surface and with the autofocus makes placement a breeze.
And one other issue...and I really don't have the tools to prove this..but the picture I see locally does not look like 720p. Now...for all fairness, the drivers are beta drivers, so I guess we'll see as things are tweaked and improved.
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have you seen the new MSFT LifeCam Cinema? It was supposed to release today but I can't find it. Just curious as to your thoughts
No, I haven't yet. I'll have to get one on order and check it out. With that cam, you could use it with PLCM or other systems...well...only if they support the higher resolution. I actually tried the TAA camera with Skype...but Skype complained that the camera was putting out a incorrect resolution (makes sense)
regarding the capability to do
720p or other resolution, check the stats at b-end codec.
I just bought a Microsoft lifecam cinema but it's incompatible with the Tandberg Movi client (running 2.1). Seems a shame and I hope it isn't because Tandberg have a competing (albiet more expensive) product.
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