Talk:Webcam

message: Either be linked or merged to and from this one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_webcams). But I'm half unsure and half to lazy to go through and make a stylistically correct process of either Undead Herle King (talk) 03:33, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Orphaned article that could...

message: This article could seriously use some clues to help people who want to put their own webcam on the web, everyone can already get their hands on the cameras, but nobody knows how to set up a live, real time, full motion video feed.
Certainly not easily.
And then nobody knows how to make mulitple cameras give feeds from the same site.
And then there's no mention of how to let users take command of Pan / Tilt / Zoom functions, if a camera even has that.
Maybe a techie from the webcam pr0n industry could write us a how-to and place a link to it here?
I wouldn't really write how-to's. That will be to specific for each piece of hardware and platform and there's other sites for that, like howtoforge (not to be treated as an endorsement, just search google for more). Howtos are not encyclopedic enough if you ask me. What I would like to see though is a list of chat and/or voip programs that support webcams and videoconferencing, their license, on which operating systems they run and whether or not they support encryption.
Mykeyspace 22:56, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Software & How-to's

message: :This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. From web cam to webcam. Enjoy. –Hajor 19:19, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional brief explanation, and sign your vote with: ~~~~
*Support, for the reason cited above. —Lifeisunfair 23:57, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

text: You'd consider that notable? I doubt you'll get more than 3, and even then they'll be questionable. <B>Troubleshooter</B> 20:58, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Anthropos 01:12, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: Comments/changes before I add this section?
Several factors are leading the explosion in webcam popularity.  Network effects (each person who has a webcam makes other webcams more useful; similarly, a phone is not useful if no one else has one),  low costs and adult video are primary.  Software enhancements that have made them easier to use:
#Features that link to Instant Messaging systems, or community websites, make it easier to find and establish links with other webcam users. 
#Integrated image manipulation software can make webcams more pleasant to use, providing features such as wrinkle reduction, and aspect ratio change (look thinner), encouraging adoption. Elvey 18:22, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Have webcams really be utilized to their full potiental? The use of webcams to drive traffic to websites appears to have crested in the early 2000s. I, personally, am still shock at the lack of webcams on the net. One would have thought that webcam use would have taken off. --Jason Gaudet (talk) 22:35, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Popularity

message: Has anyone actually read the book which is cited? Just citing a random book with 'webcam' in the title seems pointless from a verifiability standpoint IMHO 193.131.176.54 16:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cited book 

message: Seriously, there's no mention of people using webcams for sexual acts. It's pretty common (erm isn't it?). Mglovesfun 23:41, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a bit saying "As with many new technologies, webcams and webcam chat found early commercial adoption and aggressive technology advancement through use by the pornography industry. The adult industry required 'live' images and requested a Dutch developer [...]" - were you thinking of more information than that? If so, go ahead and edit it in! Mike1024 (t/c) 07:50, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Pornography seems to imply commercial.  But a lot of webcam sex is hobby stuff.  I know I get a lot of hits on my webcam site which, from the search strings, clearly show that people are associating "webcam" with "pictures of naked girls". 219.77.184.86 (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 02:38, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Webcams have had a huge sexual following from the earliest days. From ca. 1997 on there have been both many amateur webcams in college dorm rooms to commercial entrepreneurs that hosted sites where an amateur could connect and broadcast more and more revealing scenes for gifts of money or clothing.  In fact on some of these a person would send an object of clothing that the person would then wear on cam.  These were both heterosexual men and women and would tease viewing.  One such site in the late 1990s was KEYHOLE CAMS - often these were Reality or BigBrother style.  One of the Keyhole Cams sites was called BachelorCam, which was a house with three bachelors living in it and one or more of these guys would go on cam at different times.  Many were also gay sites, but many heterosexual males on cam would also offer homoerotic material that also drew the gay audience.  This could probably become even a separate page, but for starters, there should at least be a section here.   Doc ♬ talk 03:01, 5 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sexual activity 

message: Almost every laptop offers a built-in webcam these days - A trend no doubt started by Apple after it started including built-in iSight cameras with every single iMac, Macbook Pro, and Macbook.  But was Apple the first?  They were probably the first to offer it unilaterally and popularize it, but can anyone confirm which laptops were the first to include a built-in webcam? --Zippo 19:53, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The first I can remember was the VAIO PictureBook / PCG-C1 - but I don't have a cite for that, so I might be wrong. Mike1024 (t/c) 23:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Built-in Webcams? 

message: The Army image under Videoconferencing is nice and touching but as the discussion at  notes it is obviously faked. The image of the baby was clearly photoshopped onto it and the list of rules above computer forbids use of webcams so this artistic picture is just a bit of propaganda/false advertising. It would be desirable to replace this image with a real one. DoubleBlue (Talk) 16:28, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faked photo 

message: I personally feel the article Use of webcams merely covers an aspect of the technology itself, and with this article not too long, I don't really see why that article shouldn't just belong to a section called "Applications" or something like that? — Northgrove 14:49, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge of [[Use of webcams]] into this article 

message: --62.251.21.22 (talk) 17:05, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  done 

message: Perhaps a electrical wiring diagram schematics of a webcam with hardwired LED for the privacy section. That I would like to see. -- Frap (talk) 23:19, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiring diagram 

message: I've moved some history that used to be at the title webcam to Talk:Webcam/History. Graham87 12:51, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Page history

message: In an article in Elektor magazine (december 2010), it is noted that any webcam can also modified to include night vision. All that is required is to not have an infrared filter on the webcam (so this needs to be removed if present) and infrared leds (or an infrared led floodlight) needs to be added.
91.182.239.56 (talk) 09:30, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Night vision

message: Aren't webcams cameras that you can actually view through the web? I think this is different from videophoning.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.93.102.215 (talk) 22:38, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of the article 

message: Worldwide sales of PC cameras by year:
* 2006: market value at 1.2 billion USD 
* 2004: 18 million units 
* 1999: 2.9 million units 
. —  Ark25  (talk) 23:49, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sales 

message: Today, IP editor 69.181.202.42 deleted a paragraph of material regarding the development of the Connectix QuickCam, with the following edit summary comment: " Removed incorrect (and mostly non-sensical) historical development of project — DARPA and college/university collaborations had no part in QuickCam's hardware or software development.)"
Material removed:  
This material was originally added to the QuickCam article on January 3, 2011 by I.P. 174.65.7.88., and then copied into this article by yours truly (mea culpa).   I'm parking the deleted material here to see if anyone can  provide a reliable citation for it.  Note that many blogs and mirrors have copied the material from Wikipedia, so they obviously don't count. Best: HarryZilber (talk) 00:01, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quickcam development -citation sought 

message: A suggestion for an addition to the technology section: in which format do webcams transmit video to the computer? Is each frame separately compressed (jpeg?), or is each frame transmitted in some standard non-compressed format (which?), or does every camera use its own proprietary raw format for each frame (with the device driver on the computer dealing with conversion)? Thanks, AxelBoldt (talk) 18:46, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technology: format? 

message: I came here for my vision impaired older friends. I wanted to know what USB camera I can get so they can point it at a magazine and read on a big screen TV. The article doesn't even discuss this use, which lots of old people do apparently. And the artile didn't help me decide what the options are for choosing a webcam. The one we have now is a cheapie for $10 and is not up to the job. So I only gave the article 2 stars. Hopefully some wikipedia person could improve it (I don't have the knowledge).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.61.61.161 (talk) 02:56, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Because that's not a webcam. Maikel (talk) 20:38, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorry Guys - this article didn't help me 

message: Someone not using his real name (talk) 01:06, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to use duct tape in future.  --Roxy the dog (resonate) 02:21, 22 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  This just in 

message: It is not a portmanteau; there is no blending of two words. The fact that "camera" is abbreviated does not make its concatenation with the whole word "Web" a portmanteau. 
For example: "defcon" (a double abbreviation and concatenation of "defense condition") is not, "surgical cam" (where "camera" has been abbreviated) is not, but "surgicam" (where the last syllable of "surgical" has been replaced, somewhat punnishly, with "cam") is.  
(Okay, I admit that I just made up "surgicam" 'cuz I don't really have time at the moment to come up with any good examples, but I would be pretty surprised if the word doesn't already exist.  I suppose I'm not making my point very clearly.  But, hey, this isn't a discussion on Facebook; I'm not supposed to be gettin' all extraneous and chatty here.  So there!)
Starling2001 (talk) 06:05, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a portmanteau 

message: Quote: Videoconferencing via computers already existed
Where, how? Thanks, Maikel (talk) 20:38, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Videoconferencing prior to 1994

message: What's the technical standard for connecting a webcam via USB? Is it related to the OS? Thank you. Maikel (talk) 20:56, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: USB video device class. Maikel (talk) 12:31, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Standard

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