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To: Ted Gregg who wrote (1445)	7/25/1997 5:15:00 AM
From: Philip Pasteur	of 1541

Ted... DW is likely severely warping the truth AGAIN !!!! Yes, it sounds like more baseless HYPE from the masters of deceit to me! First let us remember that Camelot has never delivered a working product when it is promised. Digiphone 2.0 was touted as being able to ship in December 1996. It is nowhere to be seen to this day. Digiphone delux was almost a year late. Actually, every press release that they have ever issued has proven to be pure fiction with the perspective of time. I will be interested to see when VideoTalk is really available (if ever). I will be quite surprised if we see it before the middle of next year at the earliest, if at all. Please notice that there is no mention of pricing! There are at least 5 commercial Video Conferencing suites available that I am familiar with. They all use propriatary hardware for processing audio and video. They sell for $2500 to $3500 per seat. To my knowledge non of the companies that produce these packages are knocking them dead as to sales! It is apparently a limited market. Published tests have measured frame rates for these relatively expensive products at only 10 to 12 frames per second with a good 28.8 Kb connection, while using audio concurrently. The problem is not processing power, but the limited bandwith and the amount of compression that can be done while still getting an image AND voice to the other end that even remotely resembles the original. The H323 protocols (DW does say that the system is H323 compliant doesn't he?) for audio and video just won't allow doing both audio (even using the 5.3 Kb codec) AND 15 frame video through a 28.8 Kb pipe. Of course Camelot has never seemed to worry about fidelity.. just try Digiphone and see how little a reproduced voice can resemble actual human speech. That might just be part of the reason they can't sell the junk!! It is further hard to imagine that a company that can't incorporate a new codec into a simple net phone program in a year of effort, has slashed developement staff, and has relatively little cash to use, can come up with any kind of "breakthrough" technology!! Please consider that corporations like Microsoft, Intel and IBM have budgets for this kind of development effort that probably exceed Camelot's gross worth. They can also attract the best talent to work on such products...but Camelot has the breakthrough that will revolutionize video conferencing. I seriously doubt it. In other words don't count your millions just yet. Actually if Camelot performs as it historically always has, your stock will be worth pennies and they will be bankrupt before the first VideoTalk unit ever hits the streets!!

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