Yesterday Packet8 announced a Video over SIP play. Today, out comes a news account based around the In-Stat Report on Video over IP and its future.
It’s a bright one and show that the merging of streaming media technology, instant messaging and IP telephony is not that far off.
If voice was an 1800’s era development and widespread in home phone installations was a post 1920’s era occurance. So really we have gone long time before communications technoloogy in the home took a leap forward. Video calling has long been a dream of many. I recall the episodes of the 21st Century on CBS with Walter Cronkite. Video phones were one of the predictions. With this report, it looks like the original Walt, was right.
Check out a picture of the Packet8 VoIP Video Phone at http://solarice.typepad.com/packet8/2004/01/picture_of_next.html
Is anyone using the Packet8 video phone????