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Skype is absolutely a disaster, but it's the only video chat solution I've seen that handles audio well at all (things like echo detection). The super-expensive
by draw_down 11y ago
Skype is absolutely a disaster, but it's the only video chat solution I've seen that handles audio well at all (things like echo detection). The super-expensive fancy solutions like Cisco's offering are probably better, but I haven't tried. All the web-based tools seem to be different UIs on top of the same fundamental technology. I think Slack is nice and they generally seem to understand how to make software for humans, so I really hope they pull this off.
- manyxcxi 11y agoYou would think that... But at $10k per room for video conferencing, it was a disaster half the time, phantom calls, all kind of problems. I can't tell you how many times we just put my laptop at the end of the table and fired up Skype or a Google Hangout. We've pretty much abandoned Skype for anything and use Hangouts when we need group video, otherwise it's just FaceTime. I'll be happy to see how Slack integrates voice/video. If the quality is 80% of Hangouts and the experience is better, I'll take it.