[ale] Another MacOSX question

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Tue Mar 14 17:17:27 EST 2006


I think it really only matters if the system sees a webcam attached.
It doesn't necessarily have to be an iSight. Of course, hooking the
thing up and trying it would be an easy way to find out.

On 3/14/06, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I've got a friend that has a PowerPC Mac.  his father in law wants "to
> see more of the kids".  His solution is an iSight.  But he does not want
> to plop $149 for the iSight.  We looked at one at the Apple Store and I
> actually think it is a nice unit and the video is nice too.  Does he
> have another option?  He was thinking of simply plugging in his FireWire
> DV capable video camera and using it.  I do not know if the same
> software that uses iSight could use a DV camera.
>
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