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Skype to bring video calling to a TV near you as soon as mid-2010

Wednesday 06 January 2010 Comment

Skype to bring video calling to televisions

Cheap internet call specialist Skype has revealed plans to bring video-calling into living rooms, providing a cheap and easy way to stay in touch and actually see the person you're talking to, via your TV in HD.

Skype made its name with affordable - or even free- VoIP calling and has become the watchword for voice calls via the internet. The company  already offers video calling for anyone with a webcam and the desire to see and be seen; and now via deals with TV manufacturers Panasonic and LG, it plans to bring that same technology to the television sets in our living rooms. Skype plans to embed its software into the next generation of television sets from the two manufacturers - which could be available as soon as the middle of this year. Branded web-cams are also expected to be sold, to plug into the new televisions and complete the video calling set.

The Skype-enabled TVs will work in much the same way that users will be used to with internet video calling - including free Skype-to-Skype calls, and will be available on Panasonic's VIERA CAST branded models and LG's "NetCast Entertainment Access" models.

 

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