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AIM has high quality video chat capabilities, which is cool. Apparently you can only use AIM's video chat feature if you have access to the internet router and can reconfigure it. That sucks for those of us who don't know how to do that, and for those of us who want to use video chat from public places, like Starbucks.
Yahoo has low-quality video chat capabilities, but it works on any computer even if you can't reconfigure the router. Except if one person has a pc and the other person has a mac, then you can trade video, but not voice chat.
MSN doesn't talk between pcs and macs period.
I found this service called "SightSpeed" which appears to offer free video and voice chat between pcs and macs. The video quality isn't great, but it does offer a full-screen option with a little PIP of my camera down in the corner. Unfortunately, I just installed it and don't have anyone to talk to yet, so I can't test it.
Does anyone else know of a good-quality video/voice chat program that works between pcs and macs without configuring the internet router? Microsoft really doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate with anything that isn't Microsoft-specific in origin, does it?
Yahoo has low-quality video chat capabilities, but it works on any computer even if you can't reconfigure the router. Except if one person has a pc and the other person has a mac, then you can trade video, but not voice chat.
MSN doesn't talk between pcs and macs period.
I found this service called "SightSpeed" which appears to offer free video and voice chat between pcs and macs. The video quality isn't great, but it does offer a full-screen option with a little PIP of my camera down in the corner. Unfortunately, I just installed it and don't have anyone to talk to yet, so I can't test it.
Does anyone else know of a good-quality video/voice chat program that works between pcs and macs without configuring the internet router? Microsoft really doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate with anything that isn't Microsoft-specific in origin, does it?
