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There was mention in news media about sport fans complaining of poor receptions during sport breaks, but not while players are in play. (I will try find the link) They explained why, which makes tons of sense to me, but when it comes to media called Video, it robs the network capacity very easily, at least three to 5 times more than regular voice calls. Image, 5 hearing people calling on phone is equilvent to just one Deaf person talking on videophone. This is one of reason why I think the concept of functionality equilvent for VRS is just a political joke and just add confusion that is all. With due respect of technology limitation, what could have better understood if we demand functionality adaptive instead of functionality equivalent. Think about it, if we want functionality adaptive, we could easily request accommodation as VRI,, then congress would be more likely agreed upon because it is considered adaptive, instead of equilvent because Hearing people don't use telephone to talk with another person in same room, right? Bam! So Deaf can't use VRS in same room with other hearing person because it is not functionality equilvent (That's in eyes of congress). Thanks a lot Mr. Kelby Brick for causing confusion.
I would love to explain in ASL, only problem is there are some technical areas that I am damn inept with. That is Video and photo editing. I would love to learn how to do it on my MAC. Once I figure out how, then will be more than happy to post my video on Youtube explain how the system work so you all can get real idea how it is done and can help you figure out how to improve your video experience.
Some of you are not sure which VRS is right for you. Really, do not use Video quality as excuse to select which provider you want to. Even though I mentioned Sorenson has the best Video quality and that is fact from the day Sorenson started VRS business. BUT, is Sorenson right for you? You have to ask yourself, set aside of video issues, which VRS providers offers interpreters that fits you the most. For example, I used to love Hamilton VRS, why? Its just because the terp that they have, I love him! His communication personality fits me just perfect. I feel sadden that he had to leave VRS company. Also, some of you may have visual issues, Sorenson VRS offers very neutral background which would work perfect for some visual challenged customers, but not necessarily for every visual challenged customers, like Purple, have blue background, sometimes it works better for visual challenged Deaf users. Another example, I personally don't like ZVRS, why? Because my professionalism expectation exceed what Z can offer and it turns me off. It does not mean Z is lousy VRS provider, they might be right for specific group of Deaf people and it should be respected.
As for ConvoRelay and CAAGVRS, they don't have stand alone equipment so, I don't know about them much and not going crazy over them.
Once the Video CODEC has become standardized and port assigned reserved for video CODEC, then no matter which VRS provider you choose, all of them will have same video quality offered, and the only way that the video quality being compromised falls on network connectivity itself. So, in the end it is going to depend on VRS service you like the most.
Speaking of facebook, depending on how many servers they have on their server farm, if they don't have enough server on their farm, the facebook WILL slow down, it applies to all of sites. Its called load balance, all VRS companies have that too. If VRS companies are not carefully monitoring their load balance, they are going to crash easily, that is because Real time video conference is top of all kinds of application demand. Above the Netflix, Hulu, etc! Why? Two reasons, first, Netflix and Hulu they are "Canned" means already have the file and information AHEAD of time, and when you turn on Netflix, the apps itself starts with filling buffer, it is like a garbage can filled up with video, and they have auto correction to make sure video comes out perfect, so in other word it is like your watching netflix movie that was downloaded 5 minutes ago so you don't see poor video, on the opposite as videoconference, there is NO buffer, no garbage can, no nothing and if something messed up, you will notice right away. I could explain more clear using my ASL, I believe I can explain better using ASL than English.
Also how many smart phone are connect to the same antenna plays a role on speed too.
I am a vendor and I travel all over working at fairground. In early morning or late at night when fairground is quiet, I can get my email or surf website or use data on my phone like Video Phone with excellent speed throughout.
But during the busiest hours where there thousands of people mean at the fairground which mean there 2x thousands of smart phones (remember is not only adults but also their children have smart phone now days) and I barely get any data traffic or surf the web sites take 100x longer to load but cannot use Video Phone at all period. Reason is because there too many smart phone tying up the antenna on one same tower.
So your Video Phone performance may varies depending on the time of the day, if there lots of active smart phones connect to the same tower antenna that your smart phone are connected to then you will see a poor performance hit even on 4G.
I had smart phone for many years now and as the year process I notice more and more performance hit when more people are using popular social sites like FaceBook or Google+ to share thousands of photo which mean thousand of photo uploading daily in the background.
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If anyone willing to chat with me and maybe help me learn how to manipulate the video and photo on MAC, let me know via PM. I was seriously thinking of getting Photoshop software. Gawd they are damn expensive.
