This morning on the sursound mailing list I read about a nice new web site detailing the life of the late Michael Gerzon. Michael Gerzon is a mathematician and pioneer in surround sound theory. He invented the Ambisonic approach to…
OK, so maybe I consider myself a Telecom Junky these days. I've been listening to these podcasts from The Voice Report for a while. They're mostly aimed at enterprise concerns beyond SOHO scale but the most recent one on disaster…
In working towards completion of article on the GSM gateway I took some time to rework my Astlinux server. I finally got around to installing Lonnie Abelbeck’s new web interface. It’s really good.
Judging from today's post-recording VUC call Randy (aka Randulo) seems quite taken by his new Siemens S675IP SIP-DECT system. He's written about it a couple of places including the VUC Ning site and over on his HUB Pages psuedo-blog. Between…
While doing some admin tasks today I stumbled upon a recent post by Mike Oeth at the Junction Networks blog. He says:
As long as the video is using the SIP standard, we at Junction Networks are all for it. Our OnSIP Hosted PBX already supports video codecs using the SIP standards. Today, any customer with a video phone can make video calls.
He further states:
Oddly, however, I have the capability and most of us here at Junction Networks have video cameras, but I do not make it a habit to make video calls for business. My kids call the grandparents on the video phone every now and then, but as a business tool, at least here, it has not caught on. Does anyone have an industry where they use the video phone all the time? If so, I would love to hear about it.
Amen. That about sums up the state of video phones in general.
NewTeeVee has a report on the new hardware device built by Roku that mates to Nextflix streaming online service. At just $99 it's not expensive but it looks to be only SD. There is an HDMI output so perhaps it…