Logitech BCC950 Business Webcam Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,300 words · ~6 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Logitech for business bcc950
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conference cam now it comes in a very plain brown box because this is not all
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about the uh you know the Fancy Pants packaging that a that a retail oriented
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skew would would be focused on but this is all about the functionality enabled
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by this device and some of the really cool soft applications that it can be
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integrated with so they say right on the package that it's optimized for
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Microsoft link Microsoft link is more
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than just sort of a regular consumer chat client it is a like an Enterprise
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grade chat client so it allows you to use things like instant messaging so
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this we're used to things like just sort of personto person messaging this we're
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used to conference video messaging this we're used to but it also integrates
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with entire room video conference systems all the way down to the webcam
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built into your notebook it also has a lot of collaborative sharing stuff so it's integrated with things like one
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note so you can collaborate on that as you go while you're giving presentations
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in Microsoft link you can um you know
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play a PowerPoint with sound and it'll work and so it works with I think it's I
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think link does up to 720p but this particular webcam is 1080p so if you
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wanted to use it with a different client then that would be fine due to the
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recent acquisition of Skype uh Microsoft link is also fully integrated with that
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so there's a lot of really really neat stuff you can do but what is the actual
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usage case for something like this and why is video collaboration so important
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I guess are the real questions that you may or may not be asking yourself so as
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companies I don't know Outsource to different places or as they you know
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spread out and have larger campuses as they grow you need to still find ways to
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collaborate that don't involve getting in a plane and traveling somewhere cuz
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it's extremely expensive and very inefficient the amount of time that gets
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wasted sitting on planes is absolutely ridiculous so it's not that easy to take
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something like a notebook which has you
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know a very narrow angle lens on its webcam and it's usually not the highest
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quality thing in the world although I'm not specifically picking on this notebook it was just the nearest one
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sitting here so crowding people around it to give a presentation or whatever
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else isn't isn't necessarily practical so this aims to bridge the gap between
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something like a full room conference system and something like the the cheesy
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webcam that's built into your notebook so I'm just going to show you guys how
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it assembles and why it comes with a remote I think the remote is actually
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one of the coolest things about it so we go ahead there's a little stick that
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goes right here oh yeah it has a fully built-in speaker phone so that's that's
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neat as well because it's sort of a one piece thing that fits in the middle of a
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conference room and then you don't actually have to have anything else
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sitting there I mean it looks sort of Space Age and cool and then um
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like the conference room at the at a place where I used to work there's like
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a speaker phone and then there's like sort of a random notebook there and then
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there's uh like another device and then and we're not even set up for for video
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conferencing yet so this guy right here replaces all of that stuff and then you
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can even use you don't have to use Link cuz it's just a standard webcam it uses
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h264 encoding for video so it'll work
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just you can use it with anything whether it's FaceTime uh works with
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Apple and Windows whether it's uh Skype itself whether it is something more
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advanced like Microsoft link or Cisco's sharing software uh let's go ahead and
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plug it in just for LOLs okay so let's do a quick product tour here there's
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volume up and down mute hang up uh start call that's for the speaker phone
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functionality here's zoom in zoom out as well as rotational functionality and
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then what you'll notice here is on the remote all that is built in as well so
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you can answer and turn terminate calls zoom in zoom out move it around control
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volume and mute things so the remote is sort of the magical part because being
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able to move the camera from one person
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to another or from one angle to another allows you to basically be sitting in
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front of it going okay you know blah blah blah blah blah blah blah but then
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I've also got this thing on the wall over there that I'd like you to look at
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so go ahead and look at that zoom in you got your computer sitting next to you
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anyway so you're monitoring what they can see cuz pretty much any that client
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ever supports that and that's the
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scenario so basically it's a highquality webcam that's mounted to an ARM that
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turns around goes up and down Zooms in and out and has an integrated
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highquality speaker phone I think that if you don't see the application of this
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then you're probably not one of the people who could benefit from it but
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something like this can be easily deployed and something like uh I mean
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you know smaller organizations don't necessarily have eight different
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full-size conference rooms with full video conference buil-in you know
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$500,000 thing so this allows you to take any small little office put a desk
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in it put you know a couple wiring Jacks
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into it and turn it into a video conference room because you just put
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like a whiteboard on the wall you have one of these on the desk you have like
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sort of three or four people sitting around it and it's usable that way so I
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hope that pretty much covers everything you'd like to know about it there's also a headphone jack just in case you wanted
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to use that the whole thing plugs in via USB so there's nothing sort of
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unexpected there and and uh Slick's sort
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of telling me something oh it looks like you don't have to use the stick maybe
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that's what he's telling me so if you don't want the height adjust and you're
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just going to use it on your desk and you just want something that's sort of a fully integrated speakerphone webcam
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thing then that's an option as well I didn't even I didn't even notice that oh
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okay it still moves side to side oh oh it probably yeah it probably still moves
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up and down in side to side that's very cool well there you go don't forget to
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videos it kind of reminds me of the guy from uh Star Wars in New Hope that the
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the thing that comes out of the the swamp when they get pushed into the garbage compactor and it's like and then
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it just goes
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