Videoconferencing has never taken off in our industry, mostly because of the quality. A creative only has to see his beautiful roughcut butchered over a stuttering video link to walk away from the technology forever. Yesterday I had the opportunity to finally take a live look at the LifeSize high definition videoconferencing system. In short, the system delivers a 16:9 widescreen 1280×720 pixel image (720p in broadcast parlance) at 30 frames per second with very little artifacts. By comparison, traditional video conferencing uses CIF resolution which is 352×240. Thanks to Videré, a specialist on video conferencing systems based in Quincy, MA, I was able to see it side by side with a traditional videoconferencing rig, and there is no comparison…
