SightSpeed introduces Video VoIP recording
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“Love you, darling.” “Love you, sweetie.” Click The voice conversation stops. And starts the frustration. They ended up to see each other in a couple of weeks. Too long. Why can’t they see each other? VoIP is great, allows free long-distance phone call, but this is not enough. We want video phone call! Skype has introduced video a top feature in the last version of its application. Sightspeed managed to be a credible alternative.
What is it?
A video conferencing peer-to-peer software. With this special purpose: It was intended for video since its beginning, not only for voice chat. It claims to transmit 30 frame/s live video over a ADSL-type connection with little time lag.
Who’s behind it?
SightSpeed, Inc., a Berkeley, CA-based company. They are in the video on the Internet business for 5 years (understand a life time in this field). Their new nominated CEO is no one but Peter Csathy, former director at MusicMatch and then at Yahoo.
What is required?
A webcam, a microphone/headset, a computer running on Windows XP/2000 or Mac OS X, and the SightSpeed software of course.
Any special witty features?
A couple. SightSpeed 4.5, the latest release, enables video recording. The videos could only be stored on your local space, though. But you can upload them into your web server and link them to your weblog, site or presentations.
The software could also plays files in the Adobe/Macromedia’s Flash format. Which just is a small but important sneak into cross-browser and cross-platform development.
Drawbacks?
Quite a big one. Uploading moving images is very demanding. As noticed Luigi Canali de Rossi from MasterNewMedia wrote: users stuck with a 56K-modem connection or even those who have broadband connection with 128 Kbps upload rate might suffer for lagging and even might only hear some voice.
The other one is that only premium customers can ignite conference calls and leave a answering video message. Users of the free offer will be only able to make a one-to-one conversation, which isn’t that bad as they don’t pay for the video chat.
For example, Skype 2.0 and its video feature? Why ShightSpeed’s better?
Skype video feature is very unmature, its quality isn’t that good. And we recommend SightSpeed for its proprietary but smart algorithm: only moving part of the image is transmitted. That means, if you emit from your office and nobody is making fun of you in your back, only pixels of your face will be refreshed, reducing the bandwidth consumption and speeding the image uploads.
Feb 20, 2006 | By Nuno
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You can do call forwarding with gizmo and call transfer with Area775. Currently skype does not allow call transfer, only call forwarding.