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Monday, August 11, 2003
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I found a a page at Macintoush describing iChat AV and iSight experiences. Mine are somewhat similar. I'm currently writing an article about videoconferencing, which perhaps explains the large number of postings on iChat AV etc.
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More than just talk: "Apple's iChat AV software and iSight Web camera bring trademark style to video chat [...] iChat's quality is remarkable. A variety of factors, such as the speed of each user's Mac and general Internet congestion, can cause some breakup of audio and choppiness of video. Still, its video is crisp and smooth and audio much clearer than that of other video chat software."
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VIdeoconferencing interoperability -- Comment()
I tried to find out where the standards in videoconferencing are evolving. Here are a few pointers. Polycom Reworks IM, Communications Tool : "many of the vendors working to merge multimedia with IM are supporting interoperable standards. For instance, Microsoft, IBM, Lotus, and a number of others (including Apple) have demonstrated some manner of support for Session Initiation Protocol-based (SIP), the standard growing in the Voice over IP and videoconferencing space." VoIP and the Phone Companies: "The only important new feature that iChat AV has is that it works relatively well through firewalls and network address translation gateways." What's happening with videoconferencing: "Will cutbacks in air travel lead to utilization of videoconferencing for corporate training, technology conferences and virtual tradeshows? The technology is ready, but have interoperability standards been achieved?"
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