Creative Webcam Live!Cam Optia Reviews

The Live! Cam Optia certainly looks the part

Looks good; Great software bundle

Expensive and not really a great performer

A sharper CCD would make this a more attractive prospect at this price, but bundled software and neat looks aside, the Optia offers no greater image quality than a webcam half its price

Absence makes the heart grow fonder but would it be true as I take a look at a Creative webcam after a long break.

It has been a number of years since I last had the opportunity to look at a web cam from Creative.  In fact it was back in the days when the company still preferred to be known as Creative Labs.  The intervening period has certainly seen some re

The Creative Live! Cam Optia may lie at the cheaper end of Creative's Live! Cam line-up, but we were pleasantly surprised by its performance.

For a budget webcam, the Creative Live! Cam Optia is a clever performer. Unfortunately, its style is weakened by the lack of a mic, and video suffers at anything less than 640x480 (which affects Skype and IM). Plus we're never keen on devices that rely on...

Once again newegg did good, ordered this WC with standard shipping on Sun aftn - got it Tue aftn.

Didn't "plug & play" though Quick start manual said plug in USB first, sw disk said install sw first (I pluged in USB first).

Poor compatibility

I like the look of this web cam. (Finding anything that is not coloured black is like gold dust these days). \n \nI also like the fact that you can point the camera downwards for privacy (which also turns the unit off). So many web cams don't have such a