Upgrading the Bandwidth on a ViaTV Video Phone?

trzeciak asks: "I have an old 8x8 ViaTV VC105II video phone at home, which I used in the past. I think it has a built-in 33k bps modem. Times are different and DSL, Cable and other broadband options are available. Can the ViaTV be adapted to those new options? The simplest idea is to plug it into a PC just as a camera, but the phone's hardware is driven with a plugged-in phone, so it's not so easy. Another idea would be to replace the modem with an Ethernet card and assign IP address to the phone to use it on the network as a standalone device. Any other ideas?"