During the 2020 safer at home order, a lot of people have been purchasing web cams and recording hardware, leaving many suppliers out of stock or back ordered until July 2020. I have been tracking availability and noticed Best Buy has been getting shipments in recently, and back-ordered products ship in a week.
After researching what is listed on websites, I noticed the Web cams model number meant nothing as far as the year that model was released. Most were from 2016/2017 era, and only was was from 2020.
| Product name | Logitech C920S Pro HD Webcam | Logitech Pro webcam black | C922 Pro Stream | Brio 4k | C930e | C920 | C925-e | C920 HD |
| Notes | C920 w silver face and wide view angle | C922 Pro Stream, comes with tripod and X does not | Brio 4k | C930e | C920 | C925-e | ||
| First Available Year | 31-Jan-20 | 2016 | 2016 | 2017 | 2014 | 2016 | 2016 | 2012 |
| Normal Price | $70 at best buy | $130 best buy | $99 best buy | $200 | ||||
| Link | https://www.bestbuy.com/site/logitech-c920s-hd-webcam/6321794.p?skuId=6321794 | https://www.bestbuy.com/site/logitech-pro-webcam-black/4503702.p?skuId=4503702 | ||||||
| MP | 2.07 megapixels | 15.0 megapixels | 2 megapixels | |||||
| Res | 1920 x 1080 | 1080 | 1920 x 1080 | 3840 x 2160 | ||||
| Model # | 960-001257 | 960-001070 | 960-001087 | 960-001178 | 960-000971 | 960-000770 | 960-001075 | 960-000764 |
At that point, unless I wanted the $70 best buy cam from 2020, I thought it was best to look up Logitech 2020 latest reviews.
https://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/peripherals/what-webcam-5-reviewed-and-rated-1027972
I finally found the Logitech Steamcam from 2020 for $169 and is in stock on the Logitech website:
https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/streamcam?crid=34#section-product-hero
Hoping this will make my Microsoft Teams streaming a bit better.