Sentences with word «videophone»

DOGTV will be able to be streamed, live, on the PetChatz HD videophone in an effort to prevent pets from being bored by offering mental stimulation specifically designed for them.

But other international networks do not recognise an AT&T videophone call.

International telephone exchanges in all countries could install gateway circuitry, which converts calls from one type of videophone to a common exchange standard, but this would be very expensive.

Yet calls from a BT videophone will not give pictures on an AT&T phone and vice versa.

J. Craig Williams is talking about new videophone options.

Consideration has been given to guests security and this property is equipped with entry videophones on each floor, which are linked to the reception area, 24 - hour security and closet safes in all bedrooms.

Amazon takes full advantage of that display, providing not just useful visual feedback, but also an in - home intercom — with video, if two Echo Shows are used — and a VoIP - type videophone system.

In the 1950s, AT&T introduced videophones once again, and once again they arrived with a thud.

Garrod says the results of the work could improve videophones and even help people who experience communication problems, such as those suffering from brain damage or schizophrenia.

So could videophones cut the amount of time we spend on the phone?

Both AT&T in the US and GEC Marconi in Britain started developing videophones.

Says Martin Megarry, BT's videophone product manager, «We don't want another VHS versus Beta war because we know that the two halves of the market will be smaller than the whole.»

BT accepts that once the standards mess is recognised and receives adverse publicity, the potential market for all domestic videophones could be spoiled.

Prospective videophone buyers will soon find themselves in the middle of an electronics standards battle.

There are individuals who are only good in writing emails, or talking through videophones and promise to do the best that they could when they get married but they will not fulfill them after.

Many singles online start to communicate through sending short and friendly emails then it goes on everyday and then later on when they are comfortable knowing each other they will use videophones.

Adam and Eve are a couple, even if they live apart, and they communicate via videophone (she on an iPhone, he on a crazy contraption of his own invention).

As with the latest videophones, one major appeal of the product is that is gives people peace of mind that their pets will be happy and comforted even when home alone.

Of course, while today's inventions — from smartphones to pet - focused videophones — are indeed fun, they can also serve a more meaningful purpose.

PetChatz, launched in 2014, is a greet and treat videophone that allows the pet owner to «phone home» from anywhere using a smartphone or computer, said Lisa Lavin, CEO of PetChatz, a division of Anser Innovation in Burnsville, Minn..

Security is on the property 24 hours daily; an entry videophone connected to main entrance of building provides additional privacy.

Each lawyer has a desktop where they can collaborate on documents, as well as a mandatory videophone among other offerings.

Question: Is one sufficiently «in the presence» of the commissioner if the commissioner can see and hear the affiant / deponent by video link or by videophone link as with Skype video?

In some situations, callers could be distracted by the poor quality images on early versions of videophones.

GEC Marconi has a factory at Portsmouth and predicts sales of more than 100 000 BT videophones this year alone.

BT has now released the first results from tests run by MCI which show that calls from a BT phone will pass through both MCI and AT&T lines, but calls from an AT&T videophone will only pass through AT&T lines.

But they've been around for many years (videophones, that is, not mythical one - horned horses and efficient airlines), and video calling over the Internet is more common than you might think.

Videophones might seem the stuff of myth, like unicorns and flights that take off and land on time.

The two men, both deaf, feverishly gestured to one another in sign language over a videophone, discussing the recently released documents relating to a Milwaukee priest molesting students - the same priest they said had molested them.

This will include and enable such things as telephone, videophone, telex, fax, slow - scan television, local area networks, video - conferences, data terminals and exchange of data banks, personal computers and telephone exchanges all on the same network.

Powell: There have been many brilliant technological ideas — videophones, flying cars, space planes, jetpacks — that have turned out to be technically possible but not useful.

A postage - stamp - sized «camera on a chip» and microscopic microphones may form the basis of a videophone that could be worn on wrist.

Some videophones update the picture less than 10 times per second and the picture and the sound do not match very closely.

Telephone lines can only carry a limited amount of data, so pictures on a videophone are a compromise between fine resolution and frequent updating of the picture.

Videophones could make it harder, not easier, to communicate, according to researchers at the universities of Glasgow and Nottingham who are starting a three - year project on face - to - face communication this month.

After years of promise, the age of the videophone has finally arrived,» says British Telecom.

This test shows that AT&T's videophone will not work on some long - distance lines.

Until recently the idea of a videophone that could put moving colour pictures and sound over a conventional analogue telephone line was pure fantasy.

BT has applied for approval to sell its videophone in other countries, including the US, while AT&T has applied for approval to sell its videophone in Europe.

Callers often will not know which line is carrying their call, and so will not be able to tell whether the videophone will work or not.

When the exchange tries to compress the signal it can stop the videophone working and the call will fail.

BT now warns that signals from an AT&T videophone, which start out at 19.2 Kb / s, are more difficult to compress than those which leave a BT phone at 14.4 Kb / s.

British Telecom is now selling its new videophone for around # 400, while AT&T is selling a superficially similar videophone in the US for $ 1000.

AT&T's telephone exchanges can recognise a call made by an AT&T videophone and compensate, thus eliminating this problem.