“Imagine being able to see the sparkle of your grandchild’s eyes or the setting of your best friend’s engagement ring,” said Josh Silverman, CEO of Skype.
How would you like to flip on your television and talk to a loved one or a friend from across town? Skype has just announced in 2010 that they are going to offer high definition (HD) quality video calling to the people of the world. Skype now has a new HD web cam that will remove the need for a high performing computer to encode the video before viewing it on your screen. Not only are they developing better web cams, they are forming an alliance with companies like LG and Panasonic to produce Skype ready televisions. The new Skype plasmas won’t be ready until mid-2010.
The plasmas will offer free Skype to Skype calls and low rate Skype to landline, if they still exist, calls as well as voice mail and conference calling. The web cam will have to be purchased as an accessory for Skype to work on the new lines of plasmas, but the HD quality and special microphones will allow the user to maintain a couch distance from the TV and still have perfect communication. Now is all we need is Skype and Samsung get together and make a 3-D version of Skype, bringing the appearance of callers being right in your living room.
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