An iSight-related Bummer

After a couple of days searching, including a late-night call to Apple tech support, I have stumbled upon a knowledge base article that refers to something with which I was afflicted, and assumed was a bug. It is not. From Using your built-in iSight camera –

The iMac G5 (iSight) comes with a built-in iSight camera that you can use for several purposes, including participating in video chat sessions over the Internet with a broadband Internet connection. You can’t use the iSight to capture video with iMovie HD, but here are some ways you can use your built-in iSight camera and the images it produces.

I wonder why this is. I imagine it has something to do with the fact that the built-in iSight does not connect via FireWire to wherever it connects, but that’s the limit of my understanding of computer internals. Granted, I wasn’t planning on doing anything serious with it, and this is probably what Apple thinks, too – although I can see creaters of video podcasts finding such a limitation aggravating. But then again, maybe this is Apple trying to save them from themselves. ;-)