Skype what a total waste of time and money.
This is a total and utter disgrace for a company who is earning millions of pounds a year and does not seem to care one cent about it's customers.
Wednesday 27 February 2008, 7:04 PM
Skype HQ Video and 4 months on what has changed ?.
Well it will soon be a month since I wrote my last Blog about Skype’s HQ Video and almost 3 monthe since Skype shouted to the world about how we can now have HQ Video and what at the time seemed to be a great innovation is still a total disaster. You only have to look at the Skype Forum and in particular the video section to see the same problems keep coming up time after time even with people who are running the spec machine that Skype say you need for HQ video.
Take a look at these two links https://developer.skype.com/jira/browse/SCW-583 http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=406a1b4147808d953f28a905dfd14f21&showforum=36 to see how many people are still having very similar if not the same problems and what are Skype doing about it, well looking at the bug report or the forum it would seem very little, or if they are they are not telling us. Their favourite saying of the day at the moment seem to be try Splitcam and see if you can get your video working in the mean time even though it will not be HQ.
Well my favourite saying would be, Skype forget about seeing how many other third party products you can get your program to work with and get the current product working as you claim it does, because at the moment it does not for a very large majority of people, who by the way have paid YOU money for sections of your product.
Again it would seem that Skype have shot themselves in the foot with HQ video by introducing it to the public far to soon. IMHO there has not been anything like enough development and testing to try and get as many bug as possible removed. I know no software can or will ever be bug free but their HQ Video seems to be a total bug in itself. Reading the various articles on the web and Blog sites it seem to me that all Skype are interested in seeing how many electronic gadgets they can get Skype to work with. Skype listen carefully, we DON’T want Skype to work with our washing machine or our vacuum cleaner WE want the basic Skype to work trouble free on our laptops/PC’s or Skype phones, then you can think about continuing with the development.
It would be interesting to know either via this Blog or the Skype Forum video section which can be found here, http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=406a1b4147808d953f28a905dfd14f21&showforum=36 just how many people are using Skype and sending/receiving genuine HQ Video without any problems and what setup they use. Unfortunately like many forums and Skype is no exception very few people post saying for example I have been using Skype almost from day one done all the updates and I am also happily running HQ Video without any trouble, because when everything is running right nobody has anything to complain about.
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