[Ti] IChat Suggestions? - And wireless router for iChat?

[~flipper]

Hi Mike,

To be honest, i have had the same iBot for quite 
a while, and hadn't really noticed the difference 
with the newer codecs.

I'm a fan of the apps that employ the H.264, 
though, no question about it, and i'll be giving 
it a closer look, now that the idea was brought 
up.

But, 'grainy'...hmmm. that's a film 
'feature'...<laughs> It only resembles a 'bug'.

Seriously, with BTV Pro, sorenson, good available 
lighting, the iBot was a killer when it came out. 
Do I wish it had a Zeiss lens? Sure, why not. 
That would make hitting the 'price point' pretty 
tough, though.

But i think 'grain' has more to do with aperture, 
lens quality, bit-rate and lighting, than the 
codec. just a hunch.

I haven't checked out the iSight. I tried, with a 
borrowed one, but was on an older OS, and had 
some issue that made it hard to get recognized. 
(details are murky due to time/significance at 
the time, etc).

I do know this: When I saw Mr. Jobs chatting with 
his buddies (who looked 'scared', somewhat) 
during the keynote a year ago, I took into 
consideration that all participants were on 
dedicated GServes, VPN'd, with mega-everything 
underneath. Not exactly 'real world', for most of 
us.

People are using Canon, Sony, Panasonic and JVC 
handycam-like machines for most of the 'high-q' 
stuff out on the web cam nethers...

I'm curious about the iSight specs, though.

brian s

Mike Bigley wrote:

>>>Couple of questions:
>>>Do I need to upgrade to Tiger to take advantage of the latest iChat?
>>
>>Not to the best of my knowledge.  However, it 
>>does add the ability to video or audio chat 
>>with more than one other person at a time.
>
>The H.264 codec is awesome as well.  I have an 
>Orange Micro iBot and the quality is almost as 
>good as the original iSightŠ prior it was grainy 
>and generally crappy.
>
>-Mike
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