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Videophones Revisited
amitupadhyay7 writes "The NYTimes is running a story on Video Phones. ...more than 30 percent of American homes now have much faster 'pipes' coming into their homes: broadband Internet. Apple exploited this situation, for example, with its $140 iSight camera, a pocketcam that clips onto a Macintosh screen for free, high-quality Internet video calls. Now a company called Viseon has taken the next step by creating an actual video telephone called the VisiFone... in a related news Cisco is adding video to their IP phones. Telcos' response so far seems constructive."
The only practical advange, is seeing the inflection in the face. Leads to better understanding and agreement.
A benfit will be able to see my kids while on a road trip.
My view is that most will never install one.
Privacy issues is to great...
How do you know it is *NOT* watching you while hanged up?
I have some cool pictures of video phones.
Email me for details, grokosaurus@yahoo.com
1337 Apple Zealot is a troll! He writes a load of bullshit about Apple computers! Such as running Debian on the Apple II, Gentoo on the g5 and how he made $600,000 using a digital camera and a Mac!
Look at his posting history as well! He is also a member of that retarded neo trolling group!