I've setup an Asterisk server and gotten pretty good audio quality over SIP. A bonus is there are already a variety of SIP soft phones, some open, others not, available for most platforms. I don't know if SIP currently supports video, but I wouldn't expect it to be too long before it does. I'll wait for video over SIP to take off. Heck, I don't even have a webcam....
It's all about podcasting, now. For me, anyway. Speaking of which, this might not be a terrible means of recording a podcast, particularly an interview with another person. TFA says that the recording quality is decent:
Once again, voice recording with the Dark Shadow glasses was a very pleasant surprise. When using the voice recording feature, the Dark Shadow glasses saves files in the WMA format at a bit rate of 32kpbs. Now obviously 32kpbs is not great for recording music or something that requires lots of detail, but for recording a conversation between two people the Dark Shadows did amazingly well, and from a larger distance than I thought they would. They picked up voices from across the room and played them back clearly without any more effort than pushing a couple of buttons.
Most podcast audio quality sucks, anyway, so this can't get much worse.
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I've setup an Asterisk server and gotten pretty good audio quality over SIP. A bonus is there are already a variety of SIP soft phones, some open, others not, available for most platforms. I don't know if SIP currently supports video, but I wouldn't expect it to be too long before it does. I'll wait for video over SIP to take off. Heck, I don't even have a webcam....