Video conferencing has advantages over e-mail

To answer the question in the unit log on how video conferencing has advantages over e-mail, bulletin boards and other ways people can communicate in the business world, we will have to look at each one in detail and then come to a conclusion.

Video conferencing

Video conferencing allows people to conduct face to face meetings with people in another part of a building or even another part of the world, without any one leaving their desk.
Video conferencing was expensive to use at one point due to people having to hire expensive equipment and rooms to use when having a conference. Because of this people had to leave their normal place of work, as the equipment was not available to many people this made it very time consuming. As computers have become more advanced people don’t need to hire equipment as most desktops can now be used to have a conference.

Too use a desktop video conferencing system you also need in addition to a PC:

· Video Compression Card
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