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sectroyer wrote:Well the problem is that many users bought expensive Skype camera's for TV and now they would have to admit they are useless.... It doesn't matter if they want to do it or not they HAVE TO use Skype on TV even when they don't like it

This may be true for a number of users. But guys, the fact that you don't know how to do it doesn't exclude that some people like to make their Skype calls on their big tv displays. I do, for example.

zoelechat wrote:Here's a well-tried workaround: root your TV and install Skype on your computer/smartphone

1)If this is the approach, then why rooting these tvs at all, instead of using a dvb-t adapter or a capable decoder? They would be more appropriate and reliable, I think there's no doubt about that. Except if the answer is "for study purposes/curiosity only"
2)If it's true that a 1-on-1 video call can be made with satisfaction even on a laptop or a smartphone, I think that a group video conference needs a better configuration to nail it. At home, when we make these video calls on the tv, it really feels like being all together in the same place.

sectroyer wrote:No, I am closer to thinking it might even not work

Then peace, something less to care about

tendi wrote: 2)If it's true that a 1-on-1 video call

Lol. Making video calls on Skype is so 2000-2005 Back then it was a novelty but now... Really it's so retro Audio calls using computer/tv or anything else are just useful and more comfortable than using a phone... But video calls, seriously ? Starring at camera for longer period of time it's just boring You can do anything else while talking just pointlessly stare at computer/tv Useless crap And when you start doing something else (surf web, check email, do something NOT with the computer) it's considered impolite

sectroyer wrote:Lol. Making video calls on Skype is so 2000-2005

I'd say even more: it's 1980's fantasy

tendi wrote:If it's true that a 1-on-1 video call can be made with satisfaction even on a laptop or a smartphone, I think that a group video conference needs a better configuration to nail it. At home, when we make these video calls on the tv, it really feels like being all together in the same place.

How about mirroring your laptop/smartphone screen to TV then?

zoelechat wrote: How about mirroring your laptop/smartphone screen to TV then?

I told you already they must to have a reason for a Skype tv cam What would they say to a wife? "We bought useless cam" ?

Ok I see no further reasons to continue this debate, since you seem to be too much centered on you own habits to be able to understand someone else's ones. To each its own. I'm comfortable in the Jetsons' era

tendi wrote: I'm comfortable in the Jetsons' era

Yeah now you can even wirelessly screen laptop/phones screen to TV so (not cheap) Skype TV camera is pointless and obsolete I agree

sectroyer wrote:

tendi wrote: I'm comfortable in the Jetsons' era

Yeah now you can even wirelessly screen laptop/phones screen to TV so (not cheap) Skype TV camera is pointless and obsolete I agree

With these premises even samygo would be considered obsolete. For you one thing excludes the others?

tendi wrote: With these premises even samygo would be considered obsolete. For you one thing excludes the others?

Well some people don't need samygo However some use samygo for stuff that is IMPOSSIBLE without it Skype is NOT impossible...

sectroyer wrote:Well some people don't need samygo

I agree.

sectroyer wrote:Skype is NOT impossible...

I agree.

sectroyer wrote:However some use samygo for stuff that is IMPOSSIBLE without it

According to the way of thinking you have shown in the previous posts, I don't agree with this statement because actually you can do this stuff by using some better alternatives, such as - as I've already said - a valid dvb-t decoder, a dvb-t pc adapter, a better(=freer) tv or a dedicated pc. ??Why using all these complicated hacks when you can do ten times better in other ways? It sounds so old fashioned!?? - you could say

tendi wrote:It sounds so old fashioned!?? - you could say

I would say it like this for many people using samygo makes you possible to forget about so many other gadgets that loosing Skype is NOT an issue I don't treat it seriously