Video Conferencing

Through the research I had done previously and from the advice that I had received from people in the field, I had settled on using ichat and isight cameras. But after trying to use them over extended periods of time I found them to be unreliable, and also lacking in terms of being able to customize it. Investigating the corporate world I discovered that a company had come out with a much more affordable ($12,000 as opposed to $20, 000 and higher) HD video conferencing set up. While this is still out of my budget, I decided to check it out, hoping that I might be able to get it at least partially donated in exchange for the publicity. I got referred to local distributors -Videre Conferencing  and saw demos of HD video conferencing, which were stunning! No lags , operating on 1Mb/s high speed connections and really clear images and great sound. I also went to view some of the competition which had better features, but similar image and transmission qualities. The biggest issue is which will donate the equipment!

One of the issues that I will have to resolve is how to get the feeds onto the internet, as they don't use a common codec, but I think I have this figured out.

still need to address back lighting and getting sound through the window, or placing it above.