Comments on: iPads, Kindles, Netflix, and Video Collaboration

By: Rich Griffin

Rich Griffin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:15:09 +0000

Yeah, the post on room setups is great. I used only one camera because it would require too much switching of video windows and I was using fullscreen (on an older version of VSee that still offered that layout option.) When we had 4-way calls, I’d instruct folks to scale the various windows during pre-meeting setup.

The weakest part of that setup is the camera. I couldn’t justify the cost of the HD Sony – but that would have been ideal then. Adding continuous presence screen layout pre-sets would be helpful along with the newer Ctrl-T window positioning arrangement. (hint, hint

By: john

john — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:53:22 +0000

Great set up, btw. I like using the bluetooth devices. I hope I didn't imply we avoid rooms. I very much endorse VSee for rooms! In fact, we have a meeting every week where we use a room set up! And, of course, there's this recent post...

By: Rich Grifin

Rich Grifin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:24:53 +0000

Which isn’t to say that VSee cannot be used in a room setting. At my last gig, I had set up a room system with a 54″ LCD, Logitech, WebCam 9000 and a Phoenix Audio Quattro running on a fast PC with an Ethernet connection in our main conference room. I had to set the zoom to capture the room participants better; but it worked great. As we had great connectivity, I was able to set it to high res with 30fps and wideband audio.

A bluetooth mouse and keyboard allowed the PC to be out of the way. When we weren’t showing files or webpages we would set the peripherals out of the way for a clean, professional view on the room.

The best part was when I used nearly the same setup to compare LifeSize Express. The user experience was about the same for audio and video but LifeSize’s doc sharing is flakey. When I showed the CFO the price sheets for both he nearly fell out of his chair at what LifeSize cost. (The caveat is that LifeSize connects to *most* H.323 Gatekeepers/MCUs/Endpoints; whereas VSee [at the time] connected only to other VSee clients.)