Planning to buy a new Webcam

I need to get a webcam. I had a look at the wiki link.
Can someone tell me which webcam to get. Is linux-uvc supposedly better than the rest?
I primarily use the webcam with Skype. The wiki says, uvc does not support V4L1 and AFAIK Skype still uses V4L1(correct?)
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks

Inxsible wrote:
skottish wrote:I use a Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks and the picture quality is great.
Can you provide a link skottish?
I searched for Logitech Quickcam and there are a bunch of different models available.
Key word here is Logitech Quickcam for Notebooks
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/busin … 8&cl=us,en

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