{"id":1780,"date":"2010-10-07T08:17:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2010-10-07T08:17:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T12:17:39","slug":"cisco-rolls-out-umi-a-high-end-video-chat-service-for-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/07\/cisco-rolls-out-umi-a-high-end-video-chat-service-for-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Rolls Out Umi, A High-End Video Chat Service For Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got $898.88 to spend on ultra high-quality video chats this year? \u00a0If so, you&#8217;ll be interested in Cisco&#8217;s new <strong>Umi<\/strong> (you-me) service. \u00a0Targeted directly at consumers, the service provides stellar video calling directly from your TV.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Umi<\/strong> is actually three things; a camera that is placed on top of your HDTV, a box that connects your TV and camera to the Internet and a $24.99 a monthly service (the camera and box are a $599 one-time purchase). \u00a0To actually use the service, both parties on the call must have Umi.<\/p>\n<p>Early reviews say the video call quality is excellent&#8230;far better than what you get from competing paid and free products like Skype. \u00a0And Cisco acknowledges that Umi isn&#8217;t for everyone. \u00a0Their market is people who demand the highest quality and are willing to pay for it, as opposed to people who just want cheap or free solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Umi will be available in November directly from Cisco or Best Buy. \u00a0Verizon Fios plans to offer it to their customers starting in 2001. \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/home.cisco.com\/en-us\/telepresence\/Umi\/\" target=\"_blank\">A full rundown of the Umi features are available on Cisco&#8217;s web site here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got $898.88 to spend on ultra high-quality video chats this year? \u00a0If so, you&#8217;ll be interested in Cisco&#8217;s new Umi (you-me) service. \u00a0Targeted directly at consumers, the service provides stellar video calling directly from your TV. Umi is actually three things; a camera that is placed on top of your HDTV, a box that connects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[699,696,697,698],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}