Management Services, November 1st, 2000
From a TV application, latterly controlled by PC technology, videoconferencing has become a PC solo act and, as Geoff Tyler discovers, is more versatile as a result.
PCs have always been a problem for videoconferencing suppliers. Customers want the flexibility to use their PC screens to confer far and wide from their desks but PC technology has not been up to reproducing live TV standards.
The result has been a compromise. The set-up and management of the conference link - the who sees who and says what and when stuff - uses PC based software and the video itself uses typically coax cable an...
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