Late yesterday night, Skype released the second beta of the 5.0 version & updated on their blog that it has the 10 way video calling feature enabled in it. As it’s still under beta (second stage of development) it’s being said that Skype 5.0 beta 2 will have some bugs for us to deal with.
Also, the quality of voice & video calls have been improved to a large extent. This would allow friends, bloggers, clients & especially entrepreneurs to connect with each other
Well, when you want quality that too in video calling which would involve 9 other people to come together & render the same quality; then the ask is too much. Perhaps, you can still manage to try it out in Skype 5.0.
Also, one important point they have clearly mentioned is that of the System Requirements needed to make sure all these resource consuming features run properly.
Specially the 10 way group video calling feature (because that would consume at least 40-50 % of the resources consumed by Skype 5.0). The requirements mentioned by them are pretty much on the higher side.
#1 System Requirements
- Minimum Requirements :- Intel Core2Duo (2 GHZ CPU)
- Recommended Requirements :- Inter i7
#2 Internet Requirements
- Minimum Requirements :- 1 mbit/s Connection
- Recommended Requirements :- 5 mbit/s Connection
They have also said that the quality of the 10 way group video calling would be determined by taking into account, the speed of the slowest participant. This would ensure that the resources used for the group video calling doesn’t exceed the slowest participant’s resources & hangs up the conf window.
So, if you got those requirements then goto the above link & try the group video calling ASAP.
Do you think the ask (in terms of requirements) is too high for a normal internet user ?
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Twitter: technicstoday
September 3, 2010 at 8:48 am
Thanks mani, will check this
Twitter: anddjournal
September 3, 2010 at 10:04 am
Thats a great move by Skype. It was yesterday when I was explaining a friend about 4 way Skype conference and now I see this! Great bro.. Thanks for writing it here.
Twitter: bayofblog
September 3, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Skype is always better for voice and video calls, this one is another advantage from Skype
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Twitter: techiemania
September 4, 2010 at 1:02 pm
I am using Skype for almost two years now and according to me it is the best software for voice and video calls.
Twitter: techsplurge
September 5, 2010 at 11:22 am
Great feature from Skype but sadly I cannot take advantage of this coz my internet plan isn’t much fast for a smooth video calling experience
Twitter: Tech18Blog
September 12, 2010 at 11:04 am
System requirements also growing as skype is growing
Will try it with my system 
Thanks for the share buddy 
Twitter: technolizm
September 29, 2010 at 2:27 am
This is going to be an awesome feature.. Have been using skype for a long time.. It is an awesome software… It is really Connecting People
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