I just wrote about why Apple won’t go for visual communications on their 27″ Mac display. But I also don’t believe they will be adding that front facing camera on the iPad either. There are numerous rumors regarding Apple’s plans in this area – some surfaced before the iPad was even introduced to the world and some state that the camera is there but hidden for the time being. Similar rumors have surfaced about the iPhone as well. My own
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | March 11th, 2010 | Filed under Clients, Technology
If you have been reading my thoughts here on the blog for some time now, you might be aware that I am a real supporter of hardware-based video telephony: I believe that if you truly want to do High Definition video calling, you must have a physical terminal and not a software client on your PC. Well, in the past few weeks I had my doubts about that statement above – PCs are getting cheaper all the time and
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 14th, 2010 | Filed under Clients
This post is part of our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out! [While I've done my best to cover the various options for HD video chips and the trends in the market, I also wanted to take a deeper dive and explain how we analyze such a chip. In this case, the TI DM6467, which we have selected as the basis for our BEEHD product. For that, I asked Amit Klir, our resident video architecture
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By guest | November 16th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
[This post is taking part in our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] One of the most burning issues involved with designing a video telephony device is where the video codec is going to reside. The reason is that this is by far the most CPU intensive task of the whole system, especially when going up to high definition. I’d like to discuss the various options that exist today on the market, with their relative
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 2nd, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
[This post is taking part in our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] This is the first real post in this series, so I’d like to start off with the reason for writing this series. We’ve set out here to create a product to assist customers with developing a high definition video client – our BEEHD. The main “theme” behind this product is to reduce the hassles involved with dealing with standards and video coding
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 26th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
Last month I bumped into The eBook eBook almost by mistake. It got me thinking about what our customers’ greatest challenge is – something that we don’t solve using our products, but we know the solution to. Then it hit me – for those who are working on developing a high definition video telephony terminal it is designing the hardware around our software. So a decision was made – we need an eBook on that subject. Only problem is – time. No time to sit down and write it. To my rescue came Sean D’Souza from Psychotactics Zingers with a post on how to write a book an article at a time. So my target is writing an eBook one blog post at a time. What will I be doing? In the following weeks, and probably several months, I’ll be posting on the various aspects of hardware design for video telephony endpoint – from the reasoning behind developing such a product, to design considerations and finally to a checklist of things you need to do. It’s going to be a series of posts on “Hardware for HD”. I will be interested to hear your views on the subject or the things that you are challenged with, so drop by and leave me a message. How will you know there’s a post related to this series? Just follow the logo on the top of this page.
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | October 19th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
[Anatoli Levine, our Director of Product Management in the US for the Technology Business Unit, is headed to ITEXPO. He wanted to share with you his expectations of things to come .] I want to talk about expectations. You got that right. Arguably, it is the moments in life when you expect something to happen, are the best things that come out of it. Not when you already got what you wanted (or not), but the expectation of something [good,
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By guest | August 31st, 2009 | Filed under Miscellaneous
[We've just announced our Samsung-RADVISION VC240 HD videoconferencing LCD monitor and our BEEHD videophone engine. What we've noticed is that customers tend to ask a lot about our video codec in these products. Amit Klir, our "resident media specialist" for BEEHD explains what makes the video codec in our client product so great] As when giving a gift, customizing it makes the gift so much more effective: the same hold true with video codecs. When looking for one, you need
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By guest | June 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Clients, Technology
It’s my pleasure to announce our newsletter that we’ve started publishing this year called “Realize VoIP“. It is a bi-monthly newsletter which presents the latest updates about the V²oIP industry, our standards, RADVISION’s products and activities, as well as a wide selection of technical articles that you will find very beneficial. In addition, you can find past issues of our newsletter. What can you find in this newsletter? General articles related to the VoIP industry, keeping you up to date with standardization and market trends Updates on new versions and product releases from RADVISION News from our developer community Highlights from our blogs Collection of significant press releases and news items Information on events and webinars If you are enjoying my blog here, you are definitely going to enjoy the newsletter. I promise it won’t bore you – it contains articles that don’t find their way into this blog. What’s next? Tomorrow, we will be publishing our second issue of the newsletter, which will focus on our high definition video offering for developers. I am inviting you to subscribe to the newsletter – you’ll receive the newsletter every other month from us via email.. At any point in time, you can decide to unsubscribe using a simple link visible in each and every issue of the newsletter. But why would you want to?
By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Around the net
This week, we announce the joint project of RADVISION and Samsung, who together, created a “desktop video conferencing solution that will revolutionize the high definition desktop video market.” I will not ponder on what exactly this solution does – as Amir Zmora already did that for me, talking about the Samsung VC240 . I will also refrain from telling you all about how proud I am to be part of the team that worked on this cutting-edge project. Instead, I
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | June 18th, 2009 | Filed under Clients
