Remember when George Jetson would walk into his home after a long day of working a Spacely Sprockets and checking in on his videophone?
Something sort of like that is coming to your wired home network soon.
At CES in January Skype announced partnerships with Panasonic and LG to bring its technology to some of their Internet-connected HDTVs. And now, all Samsung LED 7000 and 8000 models will have Skype built in. Currently they’re available in South Korea today, and will be coming to the rest of the world in the first half of this year.
If you buy a Samsung LED 7000 or 8000 TV and connect it to the Internet, all you’ll need to do is attach a FREE TALK TV Camera for Samsung, which will be available soon in the Skype Shop.
Once you’ve done that, you’ll be able to make voice calls and High Quality Video calls. Voice calls will use Skype’s SILK audio codec for the best possible calling experience.
Do you use Skype? If so, how? And if you had Skype on your TV, what would you do with it?
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