What is video conferencing and what do we need to make a video conference?

Video conferencing is a way to hold meeting with the people who are in different places. Video conferencing is being popular day by day from personal use to business use. To hold a meeting someone do not have to travel from one place to another place again, they can do video conference easily. Therefore, it saves travel time and money. People can do video conferencing with the people from one side of the country by staying in the other side of the country. Even it is possible to do video conferencing with people from another part of the world. In NASA, scientists are also having video conference from earth with someone from out of the globe. This feature was first introduced in 1968 and after that day by day this technology is being developed.

What do we need for video conferencing? Some devices we need to do video conference commercially and if we want to do video conference personally then we can do that by our home pc. There are several websites available today who are providing free video calling from PC to PC. As like, Skype is one of the most popular video chatting service providing websites. From their website, we first have to download an application and then we have to install it in our pc and we can do video conference after that. If you use Skype, you can only do personal video calling with only one people. If you want to do video call with many people at a same time, that means if you want to hold a meeting over video conference then you need to subscribe packages from the Skype and you can to multi-video conference at the same time. Beside of Skype there are some more video conference service providers available. For business use you can choose one of them. There can be different types of needs of video conferencing. You may only need to do video conferencing for one time in a month. If you are willing to do video conferencing not regularly then you should not buy packages from some video conferencing service provider. You better get service from the local company who will make a connection from P2P and they will bring every things that you need for video conferencing.

What do we need for video conferencing?

• As video input device, you must have a webcam, video camera.
• As the video output device, you must have a TV, or Monitor or a projector. If you are planning to hold a big meeting then you should hire or buy a projector.
• As Audio input device, you need microphones and if you want to play some audio files and want them to hear then you should buy or hire a CD player too.
• For audio output, you need loudspeakers.
• Internet connection is mandatory to make a video conference.
• And we need a computer to make video conference by operating all kinds of application that we need for making video conference.