![]() ![]() It would be fun to Skype with you at some point, if you are interested. You just dial in the number from a numberpad on the screen and the sound is even better than using a standard phone. I use Skype to telephone friends in England from Tenerife and the cost is just pennies for a ten or 15 minute chat. International phone calls to landlines are also very cheap. At the moment I�m on a laptop with video and mic incorporated, as my big computer is in the repair center. My daughters still use headsets on tabletop computers. If one of us has a problem with their microphone, they can still type in the lower part of the box to communicate their problem with the rest of us until they get sorted and are back on voice. For a three-way or more people video conversation, Skype wants you to pay for the service, so we just talk without seeing each other, sometimes for over two hours. We don�t yet pay for video conferencing, but when there are just two of us starting up the conversation we can see and hear each other with our videocams. Most of the time we have perfect sound and conditions. I have a schedule to meet every Sunday at 12 noon Pacific time (which is 8 pm my time in Tenerife) with my brother and one daughter on Vancouver Island and my other daughter in Calgary, so we have a 4-way conversation going. I�ve been using Skype for years now, since it came out. I will probably wait until I have gotten used to Skype before I try ooVoo it's difficult to imagine six people on a video conference call - three perhaps, but more than that and people will be talking over each other. ![]() ![]() I'm still in the process of getting everything set up and updated on my laptop, and it is a much more involved process than I had expected. I did get a small mouse for my laptop, but not as small as Kevin's, which I thought was too sensitive. I made the drapes myself and painted a large design pattern on them, which you can sort of see in the distance, but he had them closed at the time, which looked better. I think the delay is fairly minimal, but it was noticeable to me.įrom where I was sitting, there was behind me, and Kevin had in view behind him, which I thought looked nice. I could see him in the room too, but that wasn't the point - I wanted to be able to calculate how much delay there was. He replied, "I can hear you already - we're in the same room!" and so we just turned off our speakers. For a test, we skyped each other across the dining table, which caused some feedback in the speakers, and so I turned my microphone off and told Kevin that we should use headsets. Yesterday Kevin bought a camera for his desk computer, and then we set up our Skype accounts. ![]()
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