Microsoft’s Life Cam Cinema
Microsoft’s Life Cam Cinema is a compact HD webcam. It shoots at 720p HD and has a built-in microphone, making it a simple all-in-one solution that can be put on the top of any laptop screen. Microsoft's Life Cam Cinema brings cinematic video into the home as the first consumer webcam to offer widescreen video with a native 720p sensor. This is a real breakthrough for webcams and for communications in general. The doctor can even check ears, nose, and throat through the webcam. How much more accurate could the diagnosis be with the relatively cheap availability of High Definition video over webcam.
The Life Cam Cinema’s video is smooth and clear with Auto Focus, a high-precision glass element lens, and Microsoft’s new Clear Frame Technology, which helps ensure clear video quality in virtually any lighting condition and at any resolution. With 16:9 widescreen video captures, Life Cam Cinema is a great option for recording widescreen videos to upload to social networking sites such as Face book and YouTube videos will look more professional. Overall, it’s a very nice webcam with a complete feature set and solid hardware. The Life Cam Cinema brings users high-quality HD recording, quick and accurate autofocus, and acceptable sound quality.
In addition to the higher quality lens the webcam also features a larger microphone that is mounted in a small bubble on top of the camera. Larger microphones tend to have better sound but until a reviewer actually takes the lid off of the enclosure it can only be assumed that the pinhead size microphones that are used on most webcams. Overall, it is a very nice webcam with a complete feature set and solid hardware. The Life Cam Cinema brings users high-quality HD recording, quick and accurate autofocus, and acceptable sound quality.
