Sightspeed Goes TV
Om Malik has the scoop on how Sightspeed is adding video place shifting (a la Slingbox) to the Sightspeed video telephony client. Using a Media Center PC, and software from Sightspeed, video is shifted to a remote Sightspeed client elsewhere. Presumably that doesn’t have to be live video, either, since the Media Center PC might also have DVR capability.
That’s slick! It also makes a lot of sense for Sightspeed. Some months ago I chatted with Sightspeed CEO Peter Csathy, who explained to me that the Sightspeed client was designed with a proprietary video compression algorithm, allowing them to show superior quality video. Rather than focus just on video telephony, Sightspeed appears to be taking their competitive advantage and using it in a variety of applications.Â
Andy Abramson also writes about this new development.Â
July 11th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
[...] Yesterday, Om scooped everyone with his post about SightSpeed and their new placeshifting of video. Beyond Om’s post and mine, there was a real flurry of conversation about this new information. The Next Generation of SightSpeed from Andy Abramson pointed to Om’s article and set several of us in motion looking for more details. Sightspeed Goes TV from Alec Saunders showed the kind of interest we expect from Alec. He watches everything like a hawk. Bruce Stewart reinforced the broad support we all share for SightSpeed in SightSpeed Comes Out Slinging over at O’Reilly Emerging Telephony. Aswath gave his usual thougthful comments and comparisons in Place Shifting by IP Communications Clients. Aswatch went so far as to point out a great whitepaper from the SightSpeed team on their video codec technology, which is proprietary. He also points out the value of SightSpeed using a SIP URI to identify the “serverâ€, And he raises, what to many of us is a question, the issue of a proprietary codec rather than something like Ogg. I, for one, like the video quality well enough that I’m less concrend abotu the codec, particularly when it can been all wrapped in SIP. [...]
July 11th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
[...] Yesterday, Om scooped everyone with his post about SightSpeed and their new placeshifting of video. Beyond Om’s post and mine, there was a real flurry of conversation about this new information. The Next Generation of SightSpeed from Andy Abramson pointed to Om’s article and set several of us in motion looking for more details. Sightspeed Goes TV from Alec Saunders showed the kind of interest we expect from Alec. He watches everything like a hawk. Bruce Stewart reinforced the broad support we all share for SightSpeed in SightSpeed Comes Out Slinging over at O’Reilly Emerging Telephony. Aswath gave his usual thougthful comments and comparisons in Place Shifting by IP Communications Clients. Aswatch went so far as to point out a great whitepaper from the SightSpeed team on their video codec technology, which is proprietary. He also points out the value of SightSpeed using a SIP URI to identify the “serverâ€, And he raises, what to many of us is a question, the issue of a proprietary codec rather than something like Ogg. I, for one, like the video quality well enough that I’m less concrend abotu the codec, particularly when it can been all wrapped in SIP. [...]