Meet a customer: Samsung’s new SyncMaster 220TN

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Samsung has unveiled a new monitor during CES – SyncMaster 220TN. The monitor was named a 2008 CES Innovations Honoree.

We have been working on this project with Samsung for a while now, providing them some essential software components for the VoIP client. I believe this monitor brings something new and fresh to the video conferencing market – simply because it is priced at a fraction of current video conferencing systems.

Wainhouse Research (pdf) provided some insights about this new product a while back:

…you can bet that a company like Samsung didn’t get into this market to sell hundreds or thousands per year; they have to be looking at tens of thousands per year to be even marginally interested. The SYNCON [the initial internal name of this monitor, Tsahi] is more expensive than a desktop PC with webcam and software, but will offer much higher video performance.

Samsung's new SyncMaster 220TNUp until now, video conferencing was usually reserved only to meeting rooms and executives within enterprises – especially due to price issues. Samsung’s new monitor cost 3-5 times less than that of current solutions and comes with an embedded PC. It can be a compelling solution for large non-IT enterprises, where people need to collaborate and have access to office software and a browser.

On the technical side, this monitor comes equipped with AMD’s Geode LX800 and Windows XP Embedded operating system. It also has a dedicated DSP for video coding, capable of providing high resolution video conferencing.

You can also get some impression of the video quality from the demo below:
If you would like to learn more about this product, you’re welcomed to check the following links:

Tsahi Levent-Levi

CTO, TBU at RADVISION, dealing with VoIP and visual communication solutions for developers on a daily basis.
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