A Full-Time 2-Way Video Link To Grandparents?

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 23, 2008 @08:33AM from the picturephones-with-voip dept.

uid7306m writes "We have elderly parents who live a long way off. However, my technological radar tells me that it's possible to set up a 24/7 video link between our kitchen and theirs. It'd be good for our kids and good for the parents, and we can now get pretty cheap nearly unlimited broadband connections at this end (UK). What's the best way to do it? Has anyone tried it? On the far end, it ought to have, in Dilbert's(TM) immortal words 'One big button on it, and we push it for you in the factory.'"

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Re:Apple iChat by Simon+(S2) · 2008-08-23 10:11 · Score: 5, Insightful

Why not Skype
Just because you ask: I think some of us don't like a 12MB encrypted binary executable file running on our system that nobody except the creators know what it does.

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