[BNM] video conferencing

[Paul Howard]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Simon Early <simon.early at gmail.com> wrote:
> what with these super-speeds on t'interweb these days, are there any *really
> good* video conferencing systems out there that are not silly money?
> Apple claim theres is very good, so would it be worth buying 2 Macs,
> sticking one in the office and the other remote, or is there a better
> solution using deidcated hardware (again, not too expensive).?
> ta
> s./
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> Simon  Early




Skype.

As long as you have a half decent camera and a good 'net connection it
works very well.  We use it every week to do a video chat (full
screen) with the mother in law in the States.  Used to use Ichat but
the video quality on Skype is much better.  And if you are both
running a decent spec PC with a certain logitech camera it does double
resolution video capture - very nice indeed.


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