06-12-2006, 10:25
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Webcam: Input or Output
Is a webcam an input or output device?
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06-12-2006, 10:30
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
Input as far as I know.
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06-12-2006, 10:39
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
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Originally Posted by Paul
Input as far as I know.
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06-12-2006, 10:41
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
Input because you're inputing the image from the cam to the PC.
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06-12-2006, 10:42
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
Second vote for input device! It takes video and displays it on your PC, as apposed to a printer which takes data from you PC and outputs it to a piece of paper!!
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06-12-2006, 11:34
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
i disagree, its an output device just as your monitor outputs GFX information for you to see, the webcam outputs data for an input device to take....
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06-12-2006, 11:39
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
input as it doesnt take data from the pc and outputs it to somewhere else
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06-12-2006, 11:50
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
it doesnt matter if its a computer or not, the camera in this case is a webcam example but as per my post here http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...2#post34173102 yesturday, its clear that the linked wireless webcam is an output device as the receaving end, 'the input' is the other part.
http://www.cricklewoodelectronics.co...2&cat=4&page=1
so the camera (the transmitter)is the output.
yes, i agree its also an input, IE. it takes input as light, then converts it to electrical current for OUTPUT to be transmitted to the input device.......
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06-12-2006, 12:12
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
thinking about it, yeah i guess your right, the primary function is to take input (the light source) were as the secondary function is to output that data.....
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06-12-2006, 12:17
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
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Originally Posted by popper
thinking about it, yeah i guess your right, the primary function is to take input (the light source) were as the secondary function is to output that data.....
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Well it is very confusing when you think about it.
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06-12-2006, 12:32
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
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Well it is very confusing when you think about it.
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Just a tad....
You could say a mouse is an output device, because it moves a pointer around a display, but we all know it's an input device!
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06-12-2006, 14:02
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
Normally the terms 'input' and 'output' would be relative to the computer itself.
a computer system always requires I/O ports ( input & output ) it's not much use without any.
Thought of in this ( industry std?) way its not so confusing
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06-12-2006, 14:44
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
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Is a webcam an input or output device?
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Neither. A strict childhood upbringing forced the webcam to repress its in and out-putting urges.
</psychoanalysis>
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06-12-2006, 17:09
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Re: Webcam: Input or Output
It's definitely an input device!
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