Tele Video Conferencing
... ” Firstly you can have video telephones which work exactly like a normal phone except you have a little camera connected to the receiver so you can actually see the person on the other end of the line. ... Specialised hardware was needed usually in the way of a card for a computer or a dedicated conferencing device, this lead to more and more dedicated conference rooms being created. ... The late 1980’s and early 1990’s provided some very early desktop videoconferencing although this required very expensive cameras and video capture cards, therefore limiting this technology to only a handful of users. ... Currently we can split the videoconferencing up into three different areas, we have both voice and data, which is found in the from of telephones, secondly we have voice and video. ... Finally we have voice, video and data. ... 6 Do we really need this technology (points from the other side of the story) The question that keeps lingering in what circumstances do the benefits of video outweigh the costs, difficulties, and insufferable quality, especially given that alternative voice/data conferencing combinations are arriving? ... (Virginia Commonwealth University 1997) “Sometimes the most effective kind of conferencing does not use video at all. ... With the increase in bandwidth becoming greater and greater we will not have to compress the video and audio in the way that it makes videoconferencing so unattractive at the moment. ... (American city business journal) state” Video-conferencing is a mature technology that is not for everyone.