Videoconferencing%20Without%20Busting%20Your%20Budget

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Videoconferencing Without Busting Your Budget

• Miguel Bordo
• Deb Kinney

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Budgets Not What They Used To Be

• Looking at alternatives
• Web based solutions
• Cheap equipment (webcams, mics, headsets, etc.)
• Ease of use for client (faculty, staff, students)

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Why Use Video/Audio Conferencing

• Time/Convenience
• Environmental Impact

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Why Use Video/Audio Conferencing

• Budget
• Resource Management

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Why Use Video/Audio Conferencing

• Educational Opportunities - Distance Learning

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Why Use Video/Audio Conferencing

• Document sharing
• Team building
• Legal proceedings
• Special speakers

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Why use Free options?

• Budget
• Ease of use
• Highly Portable
• Lack of Technical Support
• No other options

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Free VC Options

• Skype http//www.skype.com/
• Sightspeed http//www.sightspeed.com/
• ooVoo http//www.oovoo.com/
• palbee http//www.palbee.com/index.aspx
• Wengomeeting http//www.wengo.fr/
• iChat http//www.apple.com/support/ichat/
• DimDim http//www.dimdim.com/

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More Free VC Options and One Low Cost Option

• Paltalk http//www.paltalk.com
• Polycom PVX software

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Live or Memorex?
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Courtroom of the future

• Remote testimony
• Evidence sharing
• Courtroom 21 project

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Webcams

• USB based or Firewire
• Automatic or manual operation
• Different resolutions
• Some come with built-in mics
• Cost - 20 - 130
• Brands - Logitech, Labtec, Sony, Acer,
  Panasonic, Phillips

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Microphones

• USB based
• Omni-directional
• Desktop
• Options from 10 to 150
• Brands Logitech, Phillips, GE, SYBA

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Headsets

• Better than stand alone mics
• Uni-directional
• Noise cancelling
• Analog and USB connections
• Cost 40 - 150
• Brands - Plantronics, Logitech, Altec Lansing and
  Labtec

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Any Questions? Discussion? Tomatoes?

• Miguel Bordo bordo_at_law.duke.edu
• Deb Kinney kinney_at_law.duke.edu