Picture tel corporation, usa, supplies swiftsite compact videoconferencing system, which allows an ordinary tv to be used for videoconferencing, permitting high quality video meetings to take place using the digital telephone network [isdn]. Swiftsite videoconferencing system offers standards-based video and audio performance in a small, self-contained unit, 20 inches long, five inches high and less than 10 lbs in weight. The videoconferencing system is easier to install and use than a vcr, and is less expensive than many office photocopiers. Making a video call is just like dialing a telephone number, via the infrared remote control keypad which looks like a tv remote control. This is an innovative communication method that enables people in different parts of the world to meet and talk via a live video connection, without ever leaving their offices. Swiftsite videoconferencing system speeds up decision making and problem solving by facilitating important meetings to occur when they are most needed at short notice, without the participants ever leaving their officesthe videoconferencing system saves time spent on travelling to meetings and cuts down the substantial cost of business travel and accommodation. Swiftsite from picture tel corporation does all these for a remarkably low cost, using public isdn lines costing just twice a normal phone call. The swiftsite videoconferencing system can be used to conduct training seminars or product demonstrations or to introduce new technologies and personnel or to hold ad-hoc trouble-shooting sessions. Users of swiftsite need not be pc literate and they also need not own or invest in a pc. This swiftsite videoconferencing system can be directly connected to a television set. It is very user-friendly and all that the user has to do is to place the swiftsite unit on top of his tv set and connect the three cables; one cable to the tv set [monitor], the second cable to the isdn telephone line and the third cable to the power outlet and the system is ready for use.
