Ed’s Telecom Alert

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This is an old news according to a friend I video chatted with, but maybe the completion of the product is not so far in the future now?    

VRS industry now has four mobile VPs that I know of:  Purple’s MVP, two from CSDVRS’s Z-340 and PC-100, and Viable’s VPAD+.   This one is cell phone and it uses H.264 that uses an open source program.  

Of course, many of you probably already know that laptops with built-in web cameras can do VP and VRS as well.  

University Washington News

Video clip of a demo

Let me know what you think?  Would you purchase something like that?    Cell Phone/Pager with video conference capacity?  Should I put it to a vote?  

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed

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Interesting article which seems to re-affirm the trend we’re seeing in the VRS industry.  In the beginning, it was enough that deaf/hoh just get the "device"; that is, video phone.  Not any more.  Over the years, the trend is now we look at the quality of service and features of the Video Phone.   It seems that now most of the video phones, the video quality are all good – at least most of them so service (interpreting and support service) and features (video mail, call waiting, missing call list, etc) are now sought after and compared. 

Tech Svc vs Device

Also, in that article it mentioned 3-D as the next wave of future; Golly, can u imagine VRS using 3-D monitors and seeing Video Interpreters and friends or relatives in 3-D image?   3-D on a monitor will give the impression that the person is in the monitor instead at the studio.

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed

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NYC Hot Lines accepting video or photos from Cell/Pager Users.  You can video shoot crime in action and then send it to Hot Line.

That’s simply GREAT!  I predict that rest of USA will follow suit.   Means better chances for law to catch nefarious folks or save lives.  

NYC Photo Video

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed

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A quick one.  This is interesting link.  Scroll down and move the cursor over your states and see how fast broadband is down and up and then compare it to Massachusett.

I’m impressed with MA.  

State Speed Data

eyes open & thumbs up,

Ed B