Skype To Improve Video Calls
November 02, 2007 | by Christopher Nickson
Skype and Logitech team up to improve the quality of video calls.
Remember when video calls were the wave of the future? So far, as anyone who’s used them knows, they’ve been, well, a bit of a disappointment. But VoIP service Skype and Logitech have come together in an attempt to improve that, with a new idea called High Quality Video on Skype.
It will require the yet to be released Skype 3.6 for Windows, and Logitech QuickCam Software v11.5, and will run at 30 frames per seconds (fps), as opposed to the current 15 fps, and will require a broadband connection of 384 kbps or more, along with a High Quality Video-certified Logitech webcam (the Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000, the Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks and the Logitech QuickCam Orbit AF (Logitech QuickCam Sphere AF in Europe). and a PC with a dual-core processor.
Granted, that will mean the numbers who can use it will be limited, but the idea could well be a step into the future.
“This is a major leap in the clarity and smoothness of free video calls over the Internet,” said Gareth O‘Loughlin, Skype’s general manager, mobile and hardware devices. “High Quality Video is a tremendous opportunity to delight our more than 246 million users and take their Skype experience to a whole new level. One in four Skype calls already involve video, so we know our users love to show and not just tell. High Quality Video will take Skype conversations to a whole new level of realism. In the past, only big businesses could afford this kind of video quality. It’s now time to take it to everyone else.”
Both pieces of software will be available for free download early this month.
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smokeonit on Nov 2nd, 2007 at 11:27 AM:
ichatAV??? been there, done that...
in my opinion skype video sucks big time...
only good thing about skype is that it almost always works behind dsl or wifi routers...
but their payPhone rates and agreements sucks... i used to have a call in/out phone #, but after 3 months no calling your money gets nulled!!! unbelievable, and you will find out the hard way... the fine print is buried deep inside yawning paragraphs...
after that experience i canceled my account with skype and only use it if people ask me to because the only use it...
i prefer to use ichatAV or jabber/goggle talk, jabber is open to all, i like that very much... apple made the right call to include it in their ichatAV app!