Now that iSight has been discontinued in Europe.. what are we supposed to use if you want to use iChat video conferencing? From what i've read on here. getting other webcams to work is a nightmare. Apple will need to release a new model.
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iSight Discontinued
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The iSight is not discontinued; it just won't be sold in Europe from tomorrow because of some new EU directive or something-or-other (sorry I don't have the news link to hand). This also applies to the Airport Extreme and eMacs if I remember correctly.
They have very limited stock left at the Regent Street store - I called them up yesterday to ask, but they're the usual price, not discounted or anything.
They have very limited stock left at the Regent Street store - I called them up yesterday to ask, but they're the usual price, not discounted or anything.
iSight needs to be updated with better specs and the price lowered. The current revision should be discontinued.
their are 3rd party drivers for most 3r party webcams, though if i remember correctly apple used to sell a 3rd party firewire webcam, it was incased in white frosted plastic.
anyone know what the european law is? i vote it sucks.
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.a...26918&Type=PE&Category=Elec&Gad=0&dcaid=17379
their we go, any firewire webcam should work just as an isight does.
anyone know what the european law is? i vote it sucks.
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.a...26918&Type=PE&Category=Elec&Gad=0&dcaid=17379
their we go, any firewire webcam should work just as an isight does.
I've got a USB logitec that works fine - granted it was $AU50. What's the £6 cam you'd want to use?xflare said:Haaaaaa Good luck getting one of those to work on a Mac.
Web Cam
I have an iSight at home but in work use a cheap (£16) Macally IceCam which with a small bit of software (half price at £3 with camera serial number) works with iChat, quality not a good as iSight but for that price it works fine and it is USB powered.
As Macworld UK reported last week, the decision to stop selling the products (AirPort Base Station, eMac, iSight camera) is to bring the company in line with the new European Union Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2005 (RoHS).
I have an iSight at home but in work use a cheap (£16) Macally IceCam which with a small bit of software (half price at £3 with camera serial number) works with iChat, quality not a good as iSight but for that price it works fine and it is USB powered.
As Macworld UK reported last week, the decision to stop selling the products (AirPort Base Station, eMac, iSight camera) is to bring the company in line with the new European Union Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations 2005 (RoHS).
iChat maybe? It arbitrarily refuses to work with non-firewire cameras (though there's a hack that makes it stop being picky)..Andy said:
The Airport Base Station too... that explains why I couldn't find them on the Apple Store yesterday despite a fair bit of trawling.
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Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive.
It kind of sucks even more Apple are apparently happy to continue selling these things outside Europe without fixing them
I work for a company that recently had to redesign some of our products to comply with RoHS, and it can involve redesigning your hardware completely if there are no RoHS-compliant versions of the components that are used in your product. Its most significant aspect is elimination of lead content, and not all components are available in a lead-free version. Perhaps Apple is in this boat, or just don't sell enough in Europe to justify the expense and time investment that would be required to have met the deadline. I'm sure that Apple won't be the only company by far that has to quit selling product until they can comply.
xflare said:Haaaaaa Good luck getting one of those to work on a Mac.
Yeah, and good luck getting it to work on a PC even!
Don't worry. New designs all over the world will almost certainly be non-toxic thanks to this law. Nobody would want two versions to design, test and keep track of and they cannot easily ignore a market the size of EU. Besides, non-toxic substitutes of these building materials will probably cost no more in the near future as the volumes grow. Long term gain for short term pain, I think it is worth it.iMeowbot said:It kind of sucks even more Apple are apparently happy to continue selling these things outside Europe without fixing them