Microsoft Lifecam Cinema WebCam Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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today on my video blog we'll be unboxing a new product from Microsoft that's
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actually pretty exciting this is the lifecam cinema and the biggest feature
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on this camera is that it is true 720P
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HD with clear Smooth video so basically what that means is webcams are finally
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HD so let's get this baby open and uh
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actually you know what let's have a look at the back first so here it outlines
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some of the important new features of this particular webcam first of all you
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got 720p which we already mentioned at 30 frames per second world world class
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Optics so they're using an actual glass element lens rather than a plastic lens
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which is what you typically see on a webcam clear high quality video they
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show an example of uh clear versus standard video now one moment we're
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actually going to do our next unboxing using this camera so we'll see exactly
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how good that clear high quality video is next is you got Crystal Clear audio
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so they're saying they've got a digital noise cancelling microphone right on the
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top of the aluminum unit so let's get this baby open and here we go so first
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we're going to find the USB cable covered in a little sticker that
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protects it presumably and it also warns you that you should install the driver
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software before you plug in the webcam
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okay so there's our little genuine Microsoft chiny sticker got love that
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okay what else do we have in here oh I see what looks like a disc so it's in
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about a zillion different languages most of which I cannot read but I found this
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this start here excellent okay so let's open this up kind of a it's kind of a
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clever little box so it of opens up like that and here we go start here again so
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this is your quick start guide and it's going to I'm just going to get up here
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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
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position your camera and then presumably you use it okay they want you to use MSN
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Messenger that's perfectly appropriate there we go there's your lifecam 3.0
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software you're probably better off to download the latest drivers off the
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Microsoft website however okay then a
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product guide yeah okay so let's get to the product itself so let's pull it out
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of the packaging here if I can yeah there we go and then
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we got a little plastic window so that they can present the product in a retail
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store and then H I'm going to have to
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try and figure out how this comes off wow it's like a four-step process so
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there we go we removed that piece and then uh uh
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H we can go like this and oh oh no there
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we go there we go and then we can remove this no we can't remove the plastic
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piece okay so we're going to just pull the cable out which I can not quite do
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yet okay there okay we finally got it
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out but I still have it in a little oh okay plastic clam shell comes off right
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there and there it is awesome oh this is
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cool actually here it's got a flexible little stand here so you can actually
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hook it onto anything it's got a pretty good feel to it it's kind of rubberized
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so it's really really grippy and that's really neat you know what we got a
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monitor right here I'm just going to get the cameraman to uh point at the monitor
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so I can demonstrate just how this works so you hook it at the front and then you
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just throw the little grippy bit on there and you can aim it at any angle
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you want and it actually rotates here as well so that's that's a really cool
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mounting system I really like that and then there's one button on the top which
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has a picture of a phone and the and a phone okay and then you've got a
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microphone and that is it that is the unit itself there's your little HD logo
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you can see the Glass lens in there just going to turn it around so we'll see you
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can actually turn it all the way around and thank you for checking out my
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unboxing stuck of the lifecam cinema