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Old 24th July 2006, 08:36 PM
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I have it on good authority that Skypye2 for mac is going to be announced tomorrow

Lets hope the source of the information is good...

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Old 24th July 2006, 08:52 PM
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What are the new features meant to be?
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Old 24th July 2006, 08:53 PM
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I am told video chats finally...
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Old 24th July 2006, 10:27 PM
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oooh...sounds like purana has a scoop! Damn that would be cool. It can't come soon enough for me. Bring on video!
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Did anyone try the leaked beta that was apparently floating about on the net? Skype 2.0 for Mac would be cool esp. for video, but I have stopped holding my breath....
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Yep. i tried the beta and had a successful video chat with my sister in cairns.

Pretty average quality, but that could have been her camera.
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Sounds great!

The good is that it might finally provide a pretty good cross platform video solution.

The bad is that Skype is getting a bad name in University environments. As Universities tend to have large (>= 1Gb) and fairly "open" Internet connectivity, a Skype running inside quickly becomes a super-node and we end up carrying other peoples conversations.
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Old 25th July 2006, 02:05 PM
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(zbaron @ Jul 25 2006, 12:30 PM) [snapback]198241[/snapback]</div>
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The good is that it might finally provide a pretty good cross platform video solution.

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I found sightspeed to be a reasonably good crossplatform video chat client.
Have only tried with one PC friend so far but it worked ok.
http://www.sightspeed.com/
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Cool! The official skype forums and skype journal is quiet, so you must have a great insider :-)

Can't wait!
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Old 25th July 2006, 06:43 PM
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Sorry for being ignorant, but are we talking Skype for mac here? Will it (or did the beta) support built-in iSight?
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Anyone have a link to the BETA?
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