{"id":568954,"date":"2010-05-18T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=158713"},"modified":"2010-05-18T13:00:44","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T17:00:44","slug":"panasonic-brings-skype-to-your-viera-set-with-a-170-webcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568954","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic brings Skype to your VIERA set with a $170 webcam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/panasonic_viera_skype.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-158715\" title=\"panasonic_viera_skype\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/panasonic_viera_skype.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPanasonic and Skype have teamed up and some of Panny&#8217;s new fancy-pants HDTVs feature the VoIP service right in the set. All you need is the $170 wide-angle webcam to get the party started.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/panasonic-and-skype-go-live-with-voice-and-video-calling-on-2010-viera-cast-enabled-hdtv-models-2010-05-18?reflink=MW_news_stmp\">The function<\/a> was just activated in the VIERA VT25, VT20, G25, and G20 sets, which require the Panasonic-branded webcam. It&#8217;s a tad pricey, but it does offer four unidirectional mics, 720p@22fps record, a wide-angle lens, along with audio processing to counter echo.<\/p>\n<p>Just think, maybe sometime soon, we&#8217;ll be able to enjoy videoconferencing just like Marty Mcfly in Back to the Future 2. That&#8217;s been our dream all along.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Txcmc5NGhWQFDO-EX4a5083Z12c\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Txcmc5NGhWQFDO-EX4a5083Z12c\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Txcmc5NGhWQFDO-EX4a5083Z12c\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/Txcmc5NGhWQFDO-EX4a5083Z12c\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=-_Wyg_AJAIE:5VlzCNgPCz8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=-_Wyg_AJAIE:5VlzCNgPCz8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=-_Wyg_AJAIE:5VlzCNgPCz8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=-_Wyg_AJAIE:5VlzCNgPCz8:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=-_Wyg_AJAIE:5VlzCNgPCz8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panasonic and Skype have teamed up and some of Panny&#8217;s new fancy-pants HDTVs feature the VoIP service right in the set. All you need is the $170 wide-angle webcam to get the party started. The function was just activated in the VIERA VT25, VT20, G25, and G20 sets, which require the Panasonic-branded webcam. It&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}