Showing posts with label Picturephone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Picturephone. Show all posts
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Skype, Logitech Partner for Video Calling
In 1970, AT&T introduced "Picturephone" service in Pittsburgh. It flopped. In fact, the average person wouldn't normally think to turn to a telephone or cable company to buy or use video-enabled communications. Instead, one might think of WebEx, Cisco, Packet8 or Skype. And options on the mass market front just got better.
Skype and Logitech have partnered to create a High Quality Video experience using Skype 3.6 for Windows and Logitech QuickCam software, version 11.5.
The new capability provides VGA-quality video calls (640-by-480-pixels) at up to 30 frames per second over connections of 384 kbps connection or higher, when using a
High Quality Video-certified Logitech webcam and a PC with a dual-core processor.
Obviously, both end points need the set-up to ensure the best experience. This is a potential experience changer, as it should allow full-screen images with decent quality.
Skype 3.6 for Windows is expected to be available in early November in 28 languages. The Logitech QuickCam software version 11.5 is expected to be available at the same time.
The Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 and Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks webcams are now available for a suggested retail price of $99.99 in the U.S. and EUR 99.99 in Europe.
The Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF is available now in the U.S. market and Europe for $129.99 and EUR 129.99, respectively.
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Picturephone,
Skype,
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video conferencing,
web conferencing,
Webex
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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