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Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? by remlov on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @07:38AM (#25505662)
FWIW Planar makes 27" monitors that use the same 5K and 2K panels used in the iMacs, down to the bonded glass surface. The Planar IX2790 and PXL2790MW respectively. I have the PXL2790MW and if you look closely you can see the glass peephole for the nonexistent iSight Camera. Not sure if it's B grade panels that Apple rejected but it's flawless, maybe I just got lucky.
Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? by whatever1 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @09:12AM (#25506412)
It is hit or miss. I own two, the one is flawless (apart from the retention which is the norm apparently in LG displays). The other I have exchanged it 2 times and still have issues with many many dead pixels. So in my case 3/4 were bad apples.
Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? by randallsquared on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @08:10AM (#25505861)
I have a couple of these from 2014-15, and they are very, very nice (and as a plus, they matched the dpi of some macbook models at the time, at least). One surprise: they were very heavy compared to other, similarly-specced monitors.
Re:Why can’t you buy a good webcam? by remlov on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:06AM (#25506885)
The only issue I had was coil whine coming from a choke on the power supply inverter board. I resolved this by cracking open the monitor and encasing the choke in two part epoxy.