{"id":1343,"date":"2009-02-22T09:19:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T14:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2009-02-22T09:19:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T14:19:46","slug":"on-video-conferencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/22\/on-video-conferencing","title":{"rendered":"On video-conferencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Leong <a href=\"http:\/\/bleongcw.typepad.com\/simple_is_the_reason_of_m\/2009\/02\/my-experience-with-telepresence-in-cisco-singapore.html\">writes<\/a> about some Cisco video conferencing hardware:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<em>the Cisco TelePresence 1000 (made for the home user &#8211; we are told the price is US$79K) and the Cisco TelePresence 3000 (made for companies &#8211; and the price is US$299K)<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How many home users are willing to shell out US$79K for a video-conferencing kit? Why not just use Skype? <\/p>\n<p>I was watching <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bytebot\/status\/1237010115\">some TV<\/a> earlier, and Oprah uses Skype. She brought on Jennifer Aniston&#8217;s two dogs, and Owen Wilson from Maui. Full screen (some large-ish TV). Clear. Powered by Skype. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Oprah has been doing this for a while. I think Cisco isn&#8217;t going too far with their TelePresence stuff for the home. Can&#8217;t imagine many a business (SME-sized) wanting such an expensive system, either.<\/p>\n<p>What about open source video? Video over SIP? Don&#8217;t really see anything being as mainstream as Skype (which does audio and video, just fine, despite being proprietary).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernard Leong writes about some Cisco video conferencing hardware: the Cisco TelePresence 1000 (made for the home user &#8211; we are told the price is US$79K) and the Cisco TelePresence 3000 (made for companies &#8211; and the price is US$299K) How many home users are willing to shell out US$79K for a video-conferencing kit? Why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[657,763,307,762,761],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cisco","tag-oprah","tag-skype","tag-video-conference","tag-video-conferencing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-lF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}