Breakthrough Logitech Webcam Delivers True-to-Life Video with Twice the Image Clarity

Breakthrough Logitech Webcam Delivers True-to-Life Video with Twice the Image Clarity

Logitech (SWX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI), the world´s leading manufacturer of webcams, today unveiled the company´s flagship QuickCam® Ultra Vision™ webcam, offering a true-to-life video calling experience by delivering twice the image clarity as that offered by typical webcams. The stunning new PC device for Internet communications outclasses other webcams by combining an extra-large, precision-engineered glass lens with a low f-stop setting, increasing the amount of light entering the webcam and precisely focusing that light to create sharp, vivid images.

With the QuickCam Ultra Vision, people can share the important little things in life — from that sparkling new engagement ring to the toddler´s first tooth — with breakthrough clarity as they make video calls to friends and family around the world. Even in difficult lighting conditions — such as low lighting, or intense back- or side-lighting — QuickCam Ultra Vision delivers a premium performance, thanks to the new Logitech® RightLight™ 2 Technology, which intelligently adapts the camera´s video settings based on the environment in which the camera is used. Logitech´s new webcam also features a premium 1.3 megapixel sensor and supports the High-Definition (HD) video format, allowing people to create video clips and watch them in a wide-screen format.

Upgraded QuickCam Lineup:Logitech also has upgraded other members of its award-winning webcam lineup, adding new technologies and features that make the experience of video communications easier and more natural than ever before. Logitech´s performance webcams — the QuickCam® Fusion™, QuickCam® Orbit™ and QuickCam® Pro 5000 products — now include Logitech RightLight 2 Technology and the ability to record HD video. The redesigned mid-range QuickCam® Communicate™ STX webcam features an innovative privacy shade that, when flipped open, can launch the video IM application of choice (Windows Live™ Messenger, Skype® Video, Yahoo!® Messenger, or AOL® Instant Messenger™) and mute a video stream when closed. And Logitech´s redesigned QuickCam® software is included in all the new webcams, complete with a new icon-based interface that makes it easier than ever to access all of the camera´s settings and features, including the popular Logitech® Video Effects™ software.

“Our 2006 webcam lineup is loaded with innovations that address consumer needs and that could come only from a company such as Logitech, which has more than a decade of experience making webcams,” said Gina Clark, Logitech vice president of product marketing for Internet communications. “We´ve redefined performance at the high end by combining the most premium lens on any webcam with the new RightLight 2 Technology. You have to see it to believe the video quality — it is true to life.”

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