A while ago Tsahi forwarded me an e-mail from Vidtel’s CEO, Scott Wharton, raising an interesting issue: “I was at a conference the other night and I got a question from a media software engineer who is a heavy user of Skype. He made the comment that he thought the number one complaint about video conferencing was the weird view of a person’s eyes, that caused them to be looking up (or down sometimes) but not right into the eyes
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | July 27th, 2010 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
A few weeks ago I wrote a post encouraging everyone to get out of the meeting rooms and use personal video conferencing systems instead. But as much as I’m standing behind those harsh words, I am still a fan of meeting rooms, when the nature of the meeting calls them. Or as I wrote in the original post: …a meeting, with lots of people from the same physical location. Then, just like we do today with any other means of
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 11th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
[I've been asked in many occasions, both by colleagues and clients, regarding the Motion/Sharpness preference in many of today's video conferencing endpoints. To clarify this topic, I asked Amnon Cohen-Tidhar, a video architect in the Networking Business Unit (NBU), to write this guest post as part of our ongoing "Ask The EXPERT" series] Although not a “to be or not to be” question, many video communication experts debate about the issue of motion vs. sharpness. More specifically, the debate
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By guest | December 1st, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
A recent post to the Megaconference mailing list raised an issue, which I have encountered numerous times throughout my years in the video-over-IP business: “Does anyone know why a video conferencing endpoint has packet loss, and even connection break? Are there any network parameters which can cause this?” As this is a frequently asked question, I decided to dedicate a post to this issue, so here’s another edition of “Ask the EXPERT“, featuring all you want to know about the
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | July 7th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
Bryan O’Rourke recently commented on one of my posts and asked the following: “What are your thoughts on this tool and how it might assist moving video conferencing forward?” I promised Bryan I will dedicate a post to his question, and here I am keeping that promise in another edition of “Ask The EXPERT” – - - In Short Vidyo’s technology is interesting. It definitely shows the potential that still lies in H.264 tools, including Scalable Video Coding (SVC), for
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | September 22nd, 2008 | Filed under Innovation, Video Conferencing
