Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000 WinXP/Vista USB Port English Hdwr US Only CD Blue

User Reviews about Microsoft LifeCam VX-5000 (Blue)

I really felt that this was a good deal, and it was, until it quit working within a year. There is a 3 year warranty. I'll have to find out about how to get it replaced. In the meantime, however, I have no webcam. It's not a software issue -- it's hardware. Windows no longer recognizes it at all when I plug it in on any machine. I wonder if the cleaning lady knocked it off of the monitor, or if it just died on its own? I'll never know, but if she did, it only could have dropped less than a foot. Until it quit, I was very satisfied with the image quality, and extremely impressed by the audio. We'll see what happens with warranty service. The software quality has been improved, as long as you download the updated software from the Microsoft website. You don't even need it, though. -- Stopped working in under a year

I bought this for my pre-teen daughter for Christmas. It installed easily on an old Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz system, and she loves it. Her friends love it too, and they're jealous because theirs (different brands) don't work as well, so I guess it's good! She loves modifying her images with the software, so that seems to work well too. -- Works great!

This is a good inexpensive aftermarket addition to my desktop that I have had for a few years. Use it for skyping, very satisfied. If only it would make me look 30 years younger! -- Good internet camera

We got this webcam so we could communicate with our family (who lives across the state) with video once our child was born, so that my parents could see their grandson as he grows. I have used it to Skype with my family and several friends around the country and world, and it works just fine. The picture is a little choppy, with a slight delay between the sound and the image (ie, I will say something while moving my hands in a certain way, and my motions will show up a second later on the screen than when I make them, so the sound and image don't match up). It's not really good for creating videos/movies because of this. If you do video capture, it will be annoying to watch because of your mouth and motions not matching up with your words (like a dubbed foreign film :-) ). But, this is an inexpensive webcam, and you get what you pay for. If you want it for Skype or just basic video calling, it should work nicely.

The microphone quality is great.

When I installed it, my computer still couldn't recognize the hardware, so after some Googling, I figured out how to maneuver some stuff in the control panel to get my computer to recognize it. Had to uninstall and reinstall a couple of times. Not sure if it was an issue with my computer or the installation software for the webcam. -- Does the job

Easy, easy, easy. Just plugged it in on Windows 7, and everything was taken care of. Within two minutes, it was up and running all on its own. Quality is very good, and I've had no issues at all using it with Skype. -- Easiest webcam I've ever used!