From the 1964 world's fair debut of the video telephone, through TV ads showing traveling businessmen dads reading bedtime stories to their homebound daughters, the fascination with personal video services has withstood years of hype. Predicting the near-term rise of high- resolution home videoconferencing services seems likely to only add to that hype, but there are signs that such services are ready to head into the home stretch. Chief among those signs: The falling price of high-resolution video endpoints and the interest of broadband service providers in creating additional revenue-generating services on their multibillion-dollar network infrastructures. As broadband becomes more about the connected home and advanced services within that home, two-way videoconferencing looks more likely.
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