Plantronics Helps Make Remote Workers' Lives Easier (Video)

If you're working at home or from a coffee shop or, really, anyplace outside your company's offices, they need to hear you when you talk, and you need to hear them. The same goes for dealing with clients via VOIP or video, the two communications techologies that seem to be driving POTS into obsolescence faster than we thought possible just a few years ago. In this video, Plantronics PR person Karen Auby -- who works remotely most of the time herself -- explains how Plantronics products help make work easier in a world of "unified communications."

Comments

So... they believe in collaborative work?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ok, I work from home and thought, "Hey, this might have information that will help me be more effective at working remotely." Instead, it was almost 4 minutes of a woman telling us how much time her company thinks about remote collaboration, unified communication and how important it is being able to speak with each other. Oh, and their product might have something to do with voice quality.

If you're going to give us an ad like this, at least let it be something useful. Give us technical details and provide information about how the product or service works. Instead, I just lost 4 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

Plantronics?

[xtal]

I can't say I've ever had an enjoyable conference with their gear. I remember some epic fails.

Google and others have better FREE alternatives. Use them!

But, is there a science thing?

[zippthorne]

I mean, I get the slashvertisment, but.. most of the time, there's at least something newish. Plantronics sells flimsy microphones in even flimsier plastic packaging at outrageous prices that may or may not connect to the audio jack on your device-that-has-a-standard-audio-jack.

If they don't at least have some kind of wonder gadget that revolutionizes the headset industry in some not necessarily meaningful, but at least interesting way, I fail to see the point of their presence on slashdot.

What's next? A zinc bolt manufacturer advertising their not particularly unique or inventive bog standard zinc bolts, without ever actually using the word "bolt" or mentioning or displaying an any of their actual products?

Also, I had to watch an ad before watching the ad.

Re:Sad

[FSWKU]

So, never, ever buy a Plantronics product. Check.

I've had Plantronics on my "Do Not Buy" list for many a year now. I used to have SEVERAL of their headsets back when I was into LAN parties and online gaming. Every single one of them broke after only a couple months of normal use. The inline volume control would go out, the microphone would stop working, or one audio channel would give out. One set even had the earpiece completely fall off! Once I disassembled one of the broken units and discovered how cheap and thin the wires were, my decision to never give them anymore money was solidified.

Went and bought a set of MDR-V600 studio monitors back when Sony didn't equate with evil. That was probably about 9 years ago and they've held up through everything I've thrown at them and sound great (if a bit bassy at times, but that's what EQ is for). Would I buy from Sony now? Not a chance.

Stop the tripe

[dbc]

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