Cyberlink YouCam and CD-R King PC Camera

At the recent Christmas Party, I received a present which is the CD-R King Webcam. Yey! It's easy to install, fast and smooth. I tried installing an application called Cyberlink YouCam and yeah it worked for my web cam. It's an application for adding custom backgrounds, animations and even face warps for a fun and exciting way of utilizing your web cam.

Anyways, eventhough this PC Camera (as CD-R King has classified it as such) is not on a superb level of quality, it is a bang per buck web cam since it is easy to use and comes with a driver. If you're wondering what its specs are, here it is:

•	Product Name: PC Camera 5.0 Mega Pixels (U2)
•	Software Interpolation: 5.0 Mega Pixels for Image Capturing
•	With Face Tracking, Special Photo Effects, and Photo Frame Feature - DirectX 9.0 needed
•	Face Tracking is available only from 800 x 600 below.
•	Interface: USB 1.1 / 2.0
•	Color Depth: RGB24; I420
•	Frame Rate: 30 fps
•	S/N Ratio: 48dB
•	Gamma: 0.47
•	Grayscale: 8 scale
•	Aperture Range: F2.0 / F3.60
•	Focus Range: 8.0mm to infinity
•	Compatible with Yahoo Messenger, Skype, Live MSN
•	Compatible with XP and Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, Vista Black Edition.
•	With snapshot button

You can also find these specs on the official CD-R King Website.

Here is the site where you can find downloads of face warps, emotions and background animations for your Cyberlink YouCam.

To import an Emotion Effect file in YouCam, just click the folder icon and browse thru the DZP files you've downloaded and that's it! You're good to go!

Have fun using the Web Cam!

Why CD-R King products are so cheap?

Recently I bought a 20-piece bundle of blank DVD+R discs at CD-R King at the MRT Ayala Station. I was very much relieved that their stocks of blank DVDs are now pretty much an average. These past months, they haven't been able to restock blank DVDs and many of their patrons have resorted to buying expensive blank DVDs at other shops.

Well, I must say I am an avid fan of their products. Not only are they way relatively cheaper compared to other shops, they also offer a wide variety of multimedia products.

Anyways, I just found this on their site briefly explaining on why their products are so cheap. Just hanging around the internet...

http://www.cdrking.com/local/support/cdrkingcheap.php