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‎03-06-2018 01:52 PM - edited ‎03-07-2018 08:29 AM

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Product: x360 Envy Ryzen 2500
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I recently bought 2 laptops: HP x360 Envy Ryzen and Acer Swift 3 Intel.

Beside other issues with my HP x360 Envy laptop (video driver, poor display) I cannot get over the fact that HP webcam performs soooo poorly.

Regardless of light source (natural or incadescent) this webcam is blurry, displays awful rosy pink skewed colors, has tons of noise and generally performs on the level webcams represented good 15 years ago. This piece of HP technology is so backwards... below 1 (one !!) Mpix resolution!!... compared to webcams even from years ago. I was able to finally get to webcam adjustment panel to find out that it is totally ineffective. Noise, rosy pink cast, false colors, lack of basic sharpness is just staggering. Tried disabling the IR, no improvement.

Is this really what it is supposed to be? Are HP webcams in 2018 all like that?

 

 

I'm attaching a picture to illustrate how Acer laptop webcam performs in comparison with HP Envy webcam (Acer picture is flawless, in every respect). And this is the same class laptop as HP x360 Envy... how ridiculous is that?

This would be a good material for standup comedy except I paid money for this piece of c..p.

Any fixes, ideas or comments?

 

 

HP Envy x360 webcam vs. Acer Swift 3HP Envy x360 webcam vs. Acer Swift 3

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