today on my video blog we'll be unboxing a new product from Microsoft that's
actually pretty exciting this is the lifecam cinema and the biggest feature
on this camera is that it is true 720P
HD with clear Smooth video so basically what that means is webcams are finally
HD so let's get this baby open and uh
actually you know what let's have a look at the back first so here it outlines
some of the important new features of this particular webcam first of all you
got 720p which we already mentioned at 30 frames per second world world class
Optics so they're using an actual glass element lens rather than a plastic lens
which is what you typically see on a webcam clear high quality video they
show an example of uh clear versus standard video now one moment we're
actually going to do our next unboxing using this camera so we'll see exactly
how good that clear high quality video is next is you got Crystal Clear audio
so they're saying they've got a digital noise cancelling microphone right on the
top of the aluminum unit so let's get this baby open and here we go so first
we're going to find the USB cable covered in a little sticker that
protects it presumably and it also warns you that you should install the driver
software before you plug in the webcam
okay so there's our little genuine Microsoft chiny sticker got love that
okay what else do we have in here oh I see what looks like a disc so it's in
about a zillion different languages most of which I cannot read but I found this
this start here excellent okay so let's open this up kind of a it's kind of a
clever little box so it of opens up like that and here we go start here again so
this is your quick start guide and it's going to I'm just going to get up here
so that I can reach a little bit better so it shows you okay you install the driver you plug in the USB then you
position your camera and then presumably you use it okay they want you to use MSN
Messenger that's perfectly appropriate there we go there's your lifecam 3.0
software you're probably better off to download the latest drivers off the
Microsoft website however okay then a
product guide yeah okay so let's get to the product itself so let's pull it out
of the packaging here if I can yeah there we go and then
we got a little plastic window so that they can present the product in a retail
store and then H I'm going to have to
try and figure out how this comes off wow it's like a four-step process so
there we go we removed that piece and then uh uh
H we can go like this and oh oh no there
we go there we go and then we can remove this no we can't remove the plastic
piece okay so we're going to just pull the cable out which I can not quite do
yet okay there okay we finally got it
out but I still have it in a little oh okay plastic clam shell comes off right
there and there it is awesome oh this is
cool actually here it's got a flexible little stand here so you can actually
hook it onto anything it's got a pretty good feel to it it's kind of rubberized
so it's really really grippy and that's really neat you know what we got a
monitor right here I'm just going to get the cameraman to uh point at the monitor
so I can demonstrate just how this works so you hook it at the front and then you
just throw the little grippy bit on there and you can aim it at any angle
you want and it actually rotates here as well so that's that's a really cool
mounting system I really like that and then there's one button on the top which
has a picture of a phone and the and a phone okay and then you've got a
microphone and that is it that is the unit itself there's your little HD logo
you can see the Glass lens in there just going to turn it around so we'll see you
can actually turn it all the way around and thank you for checking out my
unboxing stuck of the lifecam cinema