Comments on: Vidyo Powers Google Video Chat, Gets Patent

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:32:11 +0000

Thats true of any HD video tool though. Look at the alternatives in the professional arena – Polycom, Tandberg, Radvision. Their setups are much less efficient at encoding and decoding HD video and the addition of an CU adds latency into the call. Even SD, low bandwidth calls are subject to latency issues with traditional conferencing infrastructure.

Users who are disappointed will be users that have had their expectations artificially raised. However if the have experienced CMA, Movi, or Scopia at the same kind of bandwidths, on the same hardware – then they will be impressed.

By: Vidyo Takes Broadcasting Into the Cloud

Vidyo Takes Broadcasting Into the Cloud — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:57:28 +0000

[...] including a $25 million Series C round of financing announced in April. The startup was recently awarded a patent on its VidyoRouter architecture, which it says can be used over any IP network, including the broader Internet as well as LTE, 3G [...]

By: Skype IPO Confirms: There’s No Money to Be Made in Video Chat

Skype IPO Confirms: There’s No Money to Be Made in Video Chat — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:01:19 +0000

[...] In addition to Skype, Google has made free video chat available to its email users through its Google Talk offering. And some IM clients — like MSN and Meebo — also offer free video chat as part of their [...]

By: Vidyo Takes Telepresence to the Desktop

Vidyo Takes Telepresence to the Desktop — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:31:47 +0000

[...] new desktop product builds on the company’s VidyoRouter architecture, which was awarded a patent in October. The technology uses H.264/SVC video compression, which allows Vidyo videoconferencing [...]

By: Vidyo Scores Monster $25M Funding Round

Vidyo Scores Monster $25M Funding Round — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:02:23 +0000

[...] is not an April Fool’s joke: video conferencing startup Vidyo — the same company that powers the ultra-popular Google Talk video chat client — has raised a $25 million Series C round of financing, it announced today. With the new [...]

By: Local Startup Spotlight #7: Soltrite – TECHdotMN

Local Startup Spotlight #7: Soltrite – TECHdotMN — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:37:18 +0000

[...] New Jersey based co with a patented video conferencing solution (that just so happens to power Google chat). He narrowed in on the specs and did his diligence, noting “Vidyo fits to a ‘T’ [...]

By: Chip

Chip — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:22:21 +0000

Vidyo quality is dependent on several limiting factors, including camera/capture resolution, CPU, and bandwidth from each user to the Vidyo router. Many users will not get a high bandwidth low latency connection from end to end through the Vidyo data closet. Bandwidth is expensive, and many users may be disappointed with the results prompting disaffection and tech support calls, as the Vidyo router bottleneck affects some more than others and cannot be fixed by the user. Best to keep the images small and bandwidth requirement modest. Commercial deployment of high-grade Vidyo would require placing Vidyo routers in the kind of co-lo multi-backbone peering points that we use for CDN streaming servers. I have a client that is planning such a Vidyo deployment but it still won't be cheap to use if you run high bit rates.

By: Soltrite: HD Videoconferencing | Minnov8

Soltrite: HD Videoconferencing | Minnov8 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:22:47 +0000

By: Local Startup Spotlight: Soltrite « mntechstartups.org

Local Startup Spotlight: Soltrite « mntechstartups.org — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:43:58 +0000

[...] New Jersey based co with a patented video conferencing solution (that just so happens to power Google chat). He narrowed in on the specs and did his diligence, noting “Vidyo fits to a [...]

By: Marco

Marco — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:07:39 +0000

Liz, Google has bought Gizmo5 recently. I would love to see a combination between Google wave, google talk, gizmo5 and vidyo. It would be an ideal communication and colaboration desktop tool.