KT-Tech, a small start-up company, has revealed its mobile phone videoconferencing application, KTvid. KTvid allows person-to-person videoconferencing in real-time over today’s mainstream cellular networks. The application doesn’t require the high-bandwidth of a 3G cellular network for quality two-way video and audio connectivity so its potential can be realized today. I don’t know how good the picture and sound is but you can be assured that KT-Tech thinks they are high-quality.
“Video has created enormous business opportunities on the Web, but the high cost and low quality of video on today’s cell phones has hindered the adoption of mobile video consumption, real-time video reporting and mobile videoconferencing,” said Rob Lerner, COO of KT-Tech Inc. “We are aiming to lower the barriers to adoption of mobile video by enabling high-quality video on today’s handsets, over today’s cellular networks.”
KT-Tech reveals its videoconferencing application today at the 2007 CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment convention which is being held in San Francisco on October 23-25. If you are at the convention stop by Booth #112 and look at KT-Tech’s product for me. Leave a message in the comments section of this MobileCrunch post and give your opinion as pertaining to the quality of the video and audio, and whatever thoughts you may have.
While you are there, also check out Droplet Tech. They do VGA quality video with 30 frames per second on mobile handsets, which is pretty spectacular!
Working in this specific industry of video for several years, I find the promises of this company a bit far fetched.
From skimming through their website, there are several things that strike me as odd:
- There’s no indication about the video coding techniques used
- There’s no indication of the resolution used
- They’re doing 4 frames per second in “today’s cellular networks” – virtually everyone can do that, but nobody will be using it, especially when you have 3G video with 15 frames per second on 3G phones in Europe and Asia today already
I don’t see the promise here and how they’re going to accomplish it.
One other thing, regardless of specs/SLA/QOS…
aren’t most cameras on the back of the phone. Facing away from the screen? …such that if you are in a real time two way video conference on mobile phones — you are incapable of viewing and being viewed simultaneously without the aid of a a mirror.
or are my phones woefully outdated?