| Types of Videoconferencing Before we help you understand what you need to make video calls, let's discuss the various ?avors of videoconferencing and outline the topics we focus on in this book so that you have a clear understanding of the differences among the various videoconferencing solu- tions. We divide these videoconferencing types into three categories: ■ Personal videoconferencing ■ Business videoconferencing ■ Web videoconferencing These solutions can be software that you use with your computer, stand-alone hard- ware, or combined software and hardware solutions.They all have one thing in common: they allow you to make a video call of some sort using various features. Personal Videoconferencing This book focuses primarily on personal videoconferencing solutions, or what we call video calls. We use the term personal because these calls are usually between only two people—you and the person you are communicating with.A video call, at minimum, is simply the communi- cation between two or more people who have both audio and a moving video image using a computer, dedicated video telephone, or both. It may also include additional features such as instant messaging (IM) and ?le transfers (FT), commonly found in many IM tools such as Skype, iChat AV, MSN Messenger (MSN),Yahoo Instant Messenger (YIM), and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).Though we will discuss business videoconferencing and Web videoconferencing so that you can understand the basic differences among them, we focus on personal videoconferencing solutions, from here on referred to simply as video calls.This will help simplify what we are addressing in this book: the ability of making video calls between two people to better communicate and enhance the communication experience. |
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