Tag - Video-Calling
Everyday it seems like something positive is being discovered about the new public beta of Windows Live Messenger 9. Now according to MessengerSays, the official development blog for the program, voice and video calling has been significantly improved:
Great news, as the video calling system, which has been in place for years has quickly became outdated. The development team have started to take into account the new developments in processing power and availability to larger bandwidth. Seriously, the improvement from 8.5 is uncanny. Kudos to whoever is now project managing and developing Windows Live Messenger.
>> MessengerSays: Improved voice and video features in new version of Messenger
Faster Call Connect Time. This would be the first thing that you'll notice when you call a friend using our latest Windows Live Messenger. You will be connected and talking in less time than ever before! Not only that but we've done quite a bit to improve the sound clarity and video sharpness in addition to adding higher resolution video modes (if your hardware and connection supports it). We believe you'll be quite happy with the improvements our team has made here.
As hardware technology advanced, so did we: If you have a dual core PC, recent webcam and fast broadband connection; you will benefit more from Full Screen Video Call. Because if you have a dual core PC, and you switch to full screen during your video call; it will be upgraded to High Quality Video Call.
Great news, as the video calling system, which has been in place for years has quickly became outdated. The development team have started to take into account the new developments in processing power and availability to larger bandwidth. Seriously, the improvement from 8.5 is uncanny. Kudos to whoever is now project managing and developing Windows Live Messenger.
>> MessengerSays: Improved voice and video features in new version of Messenger
Looks like this piece of news is a few days old, but nevertheless I'll post it anyway. The new Windows Live Messenger 8.5 beta build released last week, which was believed to contain minor bug fixes and tempt Messenger users into using the new Windows Live Installer actually has significant improvements to video calling:
I want small improvements like this to be applied all over Windows Live Messenger. You all must have a pet hate feature that you find horrible to use (adding emoticons or sending files to a contact for example). I've also noticed the Messenger team are blogging a lot more and there appears to be some new faces.
>> Source: MessengerSays blog
My name is Aaron, and I'm a PM for the Messenger Voice, Video and Sounds team. We recently released an update to our earlier 8.5 Beta (which Jason pointed out earlier) that has many improvements to video call, especially on Vista. If you've occasionally run into audio jitter or noise in a Video Call, our latest version should help. We also improved echo support and a small issue with the volume sliders.
I want small improvements like this to be applied all over Windows Live Messenger. You all must have a pet hate feature that you find horrible to use (adding emoticons or sending files to a contact for example). I've also noticed the Messenger team are blogging a lot more and there appears to be some new faces.
>> Source: MessengerSays blog