Uh...Ever heard of MBONE???
Rodney
Rodney M. Dyer
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College of Engineering
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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>On Sun, 25 Jun 1995, C. Duncan Hudson wrote:
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>> On Sun, 25 Jun 95 17:04:06 -0700 you wrote:
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>> >Kerry,
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>> >I too, recently saw and participated in a working demo of the AT&T video
>> >system (not on the phone, but on a computer) - it is called the Vistium. It
>> >is even beter than the phone thing, however it requires an ISDN line (I
>> >suspect that the AT&T video phone does too. With ISDN you get a much higher
>> >quality connection.
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>> >If you're interested in knoong more on the AT&T phones and/or video system
>> >for computers you can call AT&T at 1800-VID-EOGO (that's AT&Ts video
>> >technical center. I am NOT an employee of AT&T, so there is NO personal gain
>> >for me in giving you this information.
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>> >-Art
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>> While Vistium and Picasso require some heavy duty hardware the video
>> phone only requires compatible phones at both ends of the call. The
>> phone transmits a 15 fps colour picture along with regular telephone
>> voice. The phone was not an initial hot item - people complained
>> about the slow picture updating, but it sure puts CU-SeeMe to shame.
>> I hadn't thought to compare it to this software, but the comparison is
>> quite logical. While not being an expert on either system I would
>> imagine the faster (and colour) picture is due, in part, to hardware
>> based compression.
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>> C. Duncan Hudson
>> Information Management Member
>> AT&T CCS, CIO/CTO
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