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D-Link DVC-1000 Videophone Review

Posted by michael on from the transylvania-6-5000 dept.

Milton Linkle writes "One of the first H.323 compliant videophones, that doesn't require a PC, is slowly but surely making it's rounds. This review provides a very good overview of the product, and even includes a few video caps of the device in action. If this product, or others like it eventually take off, we may get to a point where we no longer have a need for traditional telephones."

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  1. No phones by Jacer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If this product, or others like it eventually take off, we may get to a point where we no longer have a need for traditional telephones." I personally haven't gotten a phone hooked up at my apartment after I moved out of the dorms. I typically use IRC, or ICQ for communication, but for the calling home to ask for mone, I set up one of the Creative labs phone blasters at my apartment and home. I've been using it since after Christmas break, and it works like a dream. Even my mom doesn't have a problem calling me. (I'm just lucky I can get a static ip from my ISP)

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  2. 8x8 has a Videophone too by dynweb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Check out 8x8's videophone. I saw a demo of this at their Santa Clara, CA office -- it's really cool. I have their VoIP service -- these guys are just really cool. Check it out.

  3. i wont see any nhl playoffs now! by pitc · · Score: 2, Interesting

    there's no way that I'm buying something that ties up the tv everytime somebody wants to make a phonecall. you'd think that for $269 they'd put some sort of display on the thing.

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  4. Great... by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Interesting
    So I'm sitting in the pub, after work yesterday, and I hear not one, not two, not three, but four cell phones going off and peole so discourteous as to sit at the bar and blather away "Yeah, I'm still a fsckhead, oh, and tell Amy and Bob that I'm a fsckhead, too, ok?" like everyone in the place wants to hear their personal life.

    What's that you say? I'm overreacting? "Get a grip?"

    Ok, let's see how we like it when people aren't just holding these things to the side of their heads and blabbing, but holding it out front of themselves like a make-up compact and blathering away and/or showing everyone all the great video, too.

    Sometimes the future isn't all it's cracked up to be.

    "Hi, I'd like an e-bomb, just a small one, do you have something that could knock out electronics within a 15ft radius?"

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  5. paranoiac psyche test question #1 by outsider007 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    do you ever get the feeling that people you see on the television are trying to communicate with you?

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  6. Infinite Jest by indole · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anyone else recall the vignette in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, where the introduction of video phones led to a downward spiral of self-consciousness and vanity until eventually people were talking with cardboard cutouts of their idealized, distorted selves staring at cardboard cutouts of the other persons idealized, distorted self?

    Perhaps we should embrace the benefit of non-visual communication: "the bilateral illusion of unilateral attention..."

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  7. Will you be allowed to use this thing? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Many broadband ISPs already have terms of service that only permit connecting one "computer". What will they think about this?

    In their minds, you're getting free video phone service without paying them anything; in their minds, your cable modem bill is only for web surfing and e-mail.

    I predict that they will specifically disallow these devices in their service contracts unless you pay a stiff extra monthly fee. They will probably also take technical measures to detect and block this "theft" of their service.