Is it necessary to subscribe to .Mac to use iSight?

Curious if one needs to subscribe to .Mac to be able to use iSight? I guess I don't fully understand how.Mac works.
Thanks for the help.
Chris

 Hello, Christopher.Curious if one needs to subscribe to .Mac to be able to use iSight?Nope.  You will find some more info on Using iSight here.
For more info about dot Mac's features, click the dot Mac tab at the top of this page. ONE of dot Mac's uses is that your dot Mac account name will work as your account name for iChat AV.
You can use dot Mac's Free Trial offer to get a free dot Mac account name. The Free Trial also lets you try out all of dot Mac's features to determine whether you want to pay to keep using them after the Free Trial period expires.
One reason that some people choose to use a paid dot Mac account is that iChat AV 3 offers encrypted chat between two paid dot Mac accounts for increased chat security.
Even if you ultimately choose not to pay for a dot Mac account, the dot Mac name you choose will continue to work as an iChat AV account name after the trial period has expired and dot Mac's many other features stop working.
Alternatively, if you do not want to try dot Mac, you can get a AIM Name here. You do not need to use AOL to use AIM. An AIM name is all that is necessary.
Either an AIM name or a dot Mac name will work fine as your iChat AV account ("buddy") name. In practice, an AIM name or a dot Mac name work interchangeably. However, when you add a new name to your "Buddy List" you must use the choices bar to indicate whether the name is an AIM name or a dot Mac name. Once the buddy names are entered, however, they work alike.
If you want more information on the iChat AV setup process, I recommend Ryan's iChat AV 3 Setup Pages.
There is more info on Using iSight with iChat AV here.
Jim

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