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Composite video connection Webcam, $9.95

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gbrux

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Say, sorry for posting this deal so late.

Last Sunday, I bought the Videoemail Xtreme "creative entertainment center" at MicroCenter in Fairfax, Virginia.

It is a PCI video capture card with onboard TV tuner and FM radio tuner. A CCD web camera is included, which plugs into the composite video port on the card. It appears to be a well made camera by Sanyo.

I paid $49.95 plus a $40 mail in rebate, net $9.95. The vendor is a company called Cybertainment, which I thing is going belly up. I'm not too concerned about getting the rebate because of MicroCenter's involvement.

I have a WinTV tv tuner/video capture card already in my system, and this web camera works just fine with it plugged into the WinTV card's composite video port.

I can do Netmeeting video conferencing with it, and the video is better than my USB web camera. It is powered via a splice in the keyboard cable, but it doesn't appear to affect either camera or keyboard.

I have only tried the camera; the Xtreme PCI video capture card is still in the box. The $9.95 for the camera is a bargain by itself.
 
For all of us that live outside Virginia: Can you give us a link, please? Or may be SKU and 1-800 phone?
I missed this deal from TigerDirect and I cannot forgive myself how stupid I was.
 
Sorry, I don't have an SKU number.

All I know is that they had about 20 of them at the MicroCenter, Fairfax, Virginia, on Sunday. They were in a stack against the wall opposite from you as you entered the store.

When I picked up the package and read the nutritional ingredients, I knew it was pretty good bargain at $49.95. The video capture card had the BrookTree BT848 chipset, so I knew that was quality stuff.

When I went to the checkout counter, the guy there asks me, "Did you get the rebate coupon?"

"What rebate coupon?" says me, thinking that it was probably something like $5 MIR.

"Wait, I'll get you one," and off he goes leaving a few people standing in line behind me.

I was very surprised that it was a $40 rebate, and I asked, "Is the $49.95 the price after the rebate?"

"No, sir."

Here's a link that shows that the vendor, Cybertainment, has gone belly up: Cybertainment Receiver Website

So, don't buy this product expecting to get any support, except perhaps from Microcenter return.
 
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