Originally Posted by
IsobelWren
You have to have a cam that's capable of broadcasting in HD to get the HD dobob next to your name. I have a Fios connection and a pretty nice cam but guys would complain frequently that my voice sounded funny or the video was crap and I read a thread on here that said using the encoder would boost your position in the ranking so I did it even tho I don't have an HD cam.
So far I haven't checked on myself in the page rank so I don't know if it says HD next to me but I've DEFINITELY noticed that I get a lot more traffic now. One of my regulars said, "yeah the video quality is just normal but I can blow up your window bigger now." and I'm told I get much more consistent quality over all.
It is a huge pain in the ass switching back and forth between the windows tho. I'm with you on that one. I have windows 7 so I just highlight over the task bar on the encoder so that I can see in a thumbnail what I'm doing.