[This post is part of our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] Time to talk about OSD. That is the On Screen Display (OSD). This is what users will see besides the actual video streams, the Graphical User Interface (GUI), so there’s a lot of reasons to spend some time around it. It is also something that causes a lot of headaches for hardware designers, especially in the seamless, iPhone-inspired era of interfaces we live
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | January 18th, 2010 | Filed under HD VoIP
[This post is part of our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] In the last two posts of this series, I’ve dealt with the layouts required for a videophone. In these posts, I’ve shown the range of different layouts that are used in today’s video conferencing terminals, and I’ve even hinted that scaling (up and down) the video streams is often required to support the various layouts. I’d like to elaborate a bit further in
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 14th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
[This post is taking part in our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] In my last post, I discussed the different layouts that are required by a video endpoint, focusing mainly on the basics – single video source, single display. This leaves a lot to be desired, both on consumer videophones and on enterprise video phones. I’d like to address this post what happens when you want to go to the enterprise market with a
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | December 7th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
[This post is taking part in our Designing Hardware for HD series. Be sure to check it out!] Last week I tried to cover the video inputs and outputs, which are necessary in videophone design. This time I want to talk about what types of video feeds you would want to see on your monitor(s) and how they would be displayed. The Basics Let’s start with the basics. I’ll assume you have a monitor that supports 720p resolution for the
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By Tsahi Levent-Levi | November 30th, 2009 | Filed under HD VoIP
