iChat AV for the rest of us
The beautiful product shots occasioned by the recent release of the Mac Book can give you an inferiority complex. You see the beautiful people using their iSights to hold a virtual meeting.
We are not the beautiful people, and I guess that’s why we look so blurry in iChat.
Yeah, yeah, those people in the ads are clearly younger, smarter, more successful, and having more fun than we are, but the thing that really bugs me is that those people are also clearly clearer than us too.
Philip, Greg and I use iChat for our weekly meetings. We all work with Mac Book Pros. If we can’t get that sharpness, I assume nobody can. Would it kill Apple to make their iChatAV product shots a teensy bit less sharp? (Yes, it probably would.)
Personally, I don’t mind being a bit blurry, especially early in the morning…
July 13th, 2006 at 11:41 am
Hmmm…. So if “pretty people” are render sharper than the “not-so-pretty-people” why are Philip and Greg significantly more fuzzy than you Jean???
Ken
July 18th, 2006 at 11:00 am
Um, I think you’ve answered your own question, Ken.
July 20th, 2006 at 8:55 am
Don’t worry… If the iSight were to pan down, you would see that these beautiful iChat models, are in fact, pot-bellied like the rest of us.
April 24th, 2007 at 11:08 am
I guess this is because iChat think you do not have enough bandwidth and hold down your quality.
April 24th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Yes! In the meantime, we’ve actually discovered that we get a much better picture when I initiate the video chats. I’ve got DSL, whereas Philip and Greg both have cable.