I'm raelly late in posting this, but now seems like a good time because I don't think it got enough attention.

A while back, friend Alec Saunders at iotum posted a video of their new Talk-Now solution. Due to some concerns over video quality (that I thought were quite unfounded), the video got pulled. Alec's redone it and it's back online now.

It lives! The Talk-Now video demo redone.

I’ve been experimenting with video again, and made another video of the iotum Talk-Now preview. The last video I made was criticized for:

• Being overly long. This one is nearly two minutes shorter.
• Being hard to view because it was shaky. In this one, I clamped the Blackberry into a stand on my desktop, and mounted the camera on a tripod.
• Poor color and lighting. This one is much better lit. Now, the lights I used are NOT photographic lights, but rather ordinary halogen shop lights that I bought at the local hardware store. This has resulted in a yellowish cast to the video, which I believe I could remove (at shooting time) by using the color balance features of the camea.
• Poor sound. Rather than record a voice-over using the PC, as I did last time, I simply used the microphone on the camera. The sound quality is much better, even when turned away from the camera, as I was when shooting the demo sequences.

Hope you like it, and I hope you give Talk-Now a try.

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