Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 19:09:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: bad@uhf.wireless.net (Bernie Doehner) Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To be a quickcam or not to be. Message-ID: <199705021709.TAA07119@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970502130451.3192B-100000@uhf.wdc.net> from "Bernie Doehner" at May 2, 97 01:06:51 pm
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Hi, > I am personaly looking at getting the Win/TV board, but this is a for a > scool project (professor wants a quickcam). > > This "The Smart one" only costs $169 for the color version vs. $230-250 > for the regular color Quickcam. for cheap videoconferencing stuff, also note that now are available on the market kits containing a PCI video acquisition board and a (small, cheap) camera. I first saw a note about them on the news, stating a price of $199 or so in some place in asia (Japan, singapore ?). A couple of weeks ago I found on a catalogue the following item: AVER TV PHONE TV - radio - videoconferencing L. 504.000 incl. vat (approx 250 US$ + VAT). consider that the color quickcam here costs about 630.000 including vat. the picture accompanying the announcement shows a PCI card which looks much like a Bt848 unit with a tuner, a TV remote control, and a thing which is either a microphone or (more likely) a camera. God knows if you get a camera for that price, but it would not be unreasonable, after all the video acquisition board might well sold for $100 and a small cheap color camera should not be that expensive, in volumes. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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