Samsung TVs join the Skype lineup

Skype’s (www.skype.com) march to conquer the living room and consumers continues.  Samsung and Skype announced that Samsung’s latest and greatest broadband HDTVs will feature embedded Skype software for voice and video calls.

The new Samsung LED 7000 and 8000 series models are shipping with Skype software today in Korea and worldwide in the first half of 2010, [...]

CES 2010: Skype TV media tour in pictures

Finally unearthed from a backlog of other tasks, some photos of Skype at CES 2010.

 

The Skype client on the high-end Panasonic Viera TV.  Note the rectangular box at the top of the TV, an add-on specially designed video camera for conducting Skype video calls.

Outside the Skype display at the Panasonic booth.

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CES – Trinity Convergence provides Skype stack for HDTV

Embedded software house Trinity Convergence announced it was the one supplying Skype with software to enable Skype video calling on HDTVs.  A spokesperson with the company said it was getting “a flurry of calls” after Skype’s announcement.

Trinity Convergence has integrated its VeriCall voice and video software engine with the Skype embedded SDK to enable fast integration [...]

CES 2010 – Skype talks TV, swarms event

Las Vegas – Skype was in force at CES for the debut of its software on high-end Panasonic and nearly all LG HDTVs coming out by mid-2010.   The company was making the most of  its announcement enabling the aforementioned TV sets to make and receive audio and video calls with a bit more hardware.

Without being specific [...]