Vidyo: better videoconferencing than Skype

A few weeks back I was on Fox.com doing a video show with Clayton Morris and they had me use a videoconferencing technology from Vidyo. The video was a lot better quality than Skype and I wanted to hear more about what this company is doing, so I visited them. This is the result.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• vidyo
• video
• conferencing
• skype

[mattty3030]

Cost of Skype = $0; cost of Vidyo = $7000

[12Vanirish34]

No one with any credibilty in the business world uses Skype, it doesn't happen, but they do use Polycom or Tandberg (now Cisco), this Vidyo technology is pretty awesome, that box may be $7000 or whatever but a comparable equivalent on the VC market is about $25,000, quite good.

[thegreeensky]

vidyo sounds good, but is skype is 100% free :)

[spacey402]

Quality Skype = 15% - Quality Vidyo 94% and by pc, laptop, ipad, iphone.........

[tellthetruthyoumoron]

i do the same with my ipod touch 4 and ipad2 via facetime.

[odessakolesar]

very informative clip .. thanks keep it up

[robber1978]

@2000kenm - yeah... so, how much longer do you think Skype will be free now that Microsoft owns it? And I'm not sure how you figure "most people" will have fiber in 2012. I would say fiber in the home by 2020 is a stretch.

[2000kenm]

I have £70 Logitech HD 910 webcam with BT Infinity fibre optic broadband 31meg down 8 meg up - and i get webcam chats just as good as this using skype! Considering the fact skype is free and most people will have fibre maybe next year i wouldnt even consider using this vidyo thing! When most people get fibre this software will be obsolete. Get BT Infinity or Virgin media instead of this. Trust me.

[IOCOMPRO]

@mattty3030  COST OF IOCOM $600

[mayawas1]

my best friends dad is Videyos Creater i was in their office and we played with the technology and videyo chatted with people all over the world

[siglmgga]

Someone should correct the CAPTIONING as soon as possible here. VERY important for all videos online now. The automatic speech to text just not good enough yet.