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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 13:12:21 EST
- From: kab@hotstone.att.com (Kenneth A Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: AT&T's COLOR Videophone With Motion
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- Well, the local AT&T phone store brought their wares to sell and vend
- to the inhabitants of the building I work in (Yeah, it's an AT&T
- location). They also brought one of those color videophones. While
- it wasn't hooked up to a telephone line, you could hit the "self-view"
- switch. After some 1-2 second dalay, a color picture did appear with
- very recognizeable faces and such like on it.
-
- I tried holding a memo up to it, but it wan't able to reproduce the
- text, at least not for the short time I tried it. It is definitly not
- full motion; the picture is jerky (five to ten times a second
- refresh?). You can tell, however, if the person on the other end is
- smiling, frowning, or making faces at you very well. The screen is
- about 4.5" square or thereabouts. As I understand it, there's some
- really hot digital signal processing and compression/decompression
- schemes implemented in these phones. Your mileage may vary.
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- Ken Becker kab@hotstone.att.com
- Opinions expressed here are mine, all mine!
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