July 26, 2006



Watch TV Back Home And Call Any Phone Number Around The World With The New Sightspeed 5

 

Today Sightspeed will release a new version of its excellent video conferencing software, which not only allows PC, Mac and Linux-based users to communicate with video and audio for free, (paid accounts get a lot more for next to nothing) and also makes it now possible to dial any landline or mobile phone in the world directly from your Sightspeed account, but which now premieres, among video conferencing tools the ability to watch your home tv channels remotely.

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Thanks to Peter Zottolo and the whole team back at Sightspeed in California, I have just been able to test out this new feature, and boy... it rocks.

Here is my 2-min long video reportage about it:

More info about Sighspeed:
Free One-On-One Videoconferencing with Sighspeed (October 15, 2005)
Best Video Conferencing Solution For PCs And Macs: SightSpeed (June 6, 2006)
SightSpeed Videoconferencing Is Ready For The Mac Too
(January 20, 2004)


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posted by Robin Good on Wednesday, July 26 2006, updated on Wednesday, July 26 2006


 

 

 

 

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