Comments on: VoIP goes the TV http://gigaom.com/2004/09/22/voip-goes-the-tv/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Aswath http://gigaom.com/2004/09/22/voip-goes-the-tv/#comment-98126 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/09/22/voip-goes-the-tv/#comment-98126 In case you want to get TV caller ID for your “dying” PSTN phone, please take a look at http://shop.store.yahoo.com/shoptronics/tvmeplcadica.html. You don’t have to get the service from the cable provider. As for receiving caller id on your computer, just connect one of the extensions to your computer modem and run a telephony software. Also take a look at yesterday’s announcement from Verizon regarding their new service iobi (www.verizon.com/iobi). It looks like one does not need VoIP to receive voice mail via email.

]]> By: Om http://gigaom.com/2004/09/22/voip-goes-the-tv/#comment-98127 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/09/22/voip-goes-the-tv/#comment-98127 L.O.L – this is just too funny! nice…

]]> By: Doc Doc http://gigaom.com/2004/09/22/voip-goes-the-tv/#comment-98128 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/09/22/voip-goes-the-tv/#comment-98128 Since voice data can travel on the same cable that also delivers your television (if you’re a cable TV subscriber) and Internet access, it’s not terribly difficult to route incoming phone info to your television.
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This is just wrong – it forces the STB to include a cable modem in the STB and will only work with the MSOs VOIP service. Just because the cable video and internet come over the same wire, doesn’t mean that it is in a common format. The video format used by the STB isn’t TCP/IP that is used by phones. You need a cable modem to get at the IP traffic on the RF network.

]]> By: kat http://gigaom.com/2004/09/22/voip-goes-the-tv/#comment-98129 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2004/09/22/voip-goes-the-tv/#comment-98129 I just don’t understand why Sonus doesn’t get mentioned more. They are by far leading the pack yet get very little press. They’re a very solid company, IMO.

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