| ??? 11/21/07 08:07 Read: times |
#147297 - My witness, m'lud Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Andy Peters said:
that's the generic term for the little USB-connected cameras that you attach to your computer I said:
Unfortunately true - but an abuse of the original term, IMO:
http://www.8052.com/forum/read.phtml?id=146623 Peter Duchemin, in ECE magazine, said: (my emphasis)
Consumer webcams are available for little cost in almost any computer shop. But most of these are simple passive cameras that just do digital image-capture and deliver these images to a PC, typically by means of a USB cable connection. It is only the PC that is able to process the images, such as compressing them in the JPEG format, and making them available, for example, on the connected TCP/IP network running an HTTP server to which remote users can connect with web browsers. These so-called “webcams” should more precisely be renamed “PC-cams” as they do not really include the “web”.
Real network cameras on the other hand do not need a PC for image compression and attachment to a network... See: http://www.8052.com/forum/read.phtml?id=147294 I rest my case, m'lud |
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| 8052 Webcam | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Why "web"? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| why "web" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ugh!! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| My witness, m'lud | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| 1000 words | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| no problem with that... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| oh yes, there is | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That's the problem with sloppy terminology | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
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| Just the camera then | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
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| The hunt is on... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: Murray doesn't know how to quote | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: mobile phones | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Then again | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
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| ATWebDVK-02WC | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ouch! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
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