Webcams are mostly used for video conferencing, where streams are (and should be) downsampled to something like 240p to avoid saturating the entire internet with crap. Anyone doing serious video uses an external camera, so what's the point of increasing the pixel count of a webcam?
Anyone doing serious video uses an external camera, so what's the point of increasing the pixel count of a webcam?
One of the first statements I typically see in any review of any new Apple product has been some variation of "what the heck is with the 720p webcam? There's no excuse for that, Apple, in the year ####".
As silly as that is, people do read those reviews and are impacted by them.
I’ll go the opposite extreme— why only 1080p? I’d love a 1440p or 4k camera that can easily be cropped down to 1080p. When leading a video conference the better the image the more engagement you have it seems.
What's the point of a 1080p webcam? (Score:2)
Webcams are mostly used for video conferencing, where streams are (and should be) downsampled to something like 240p to avoid saturating the entire internet with crap. Anyone doing serious video uses an external camera, so what's the point of increasing the pixel count of a webcam?
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A good 1080p stream is barely 500kb/s. You can always down sample your camera if you feel guilty.
Re: What's the point of a 1080p webcam? (Score:2)
Saturate? Are you running IP over pigeon over there or what?
Kill those crap live streams (as in: Twitch, YouTube etc) and you've done much more to improve the world.
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Anyone doing serious video uses an external camera, so what's the point of increasing the pixel count of a webcam?
One of the first statements I typically see in any review of any new Apple product has been some variation of "what the heck is with the 720p webcam? There's no excuse for that, Apple, in the year ####".
As silly as that is, people do read those reviews and are impacted by them.
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I’ll go the opposite extreme— why only 1080p? I’d love a 1440p or 4k camera that can easily be cropped down to 1080p. When leading a video conference the better the image the more engagement you have it seems.
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Obligatory Simpsons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10LxfNbJReU [youtube.com]
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The point is to stop people complaining about the web camera, but I guess you can't please everyone.