This version should be considered a prototype or alpha release, but it is a very good one. The User Interface is rather crude, but it's truly worth playing with it if you are a video geek. It is the finest video quality I and my fellow testers have seen. Here is a sample:

It shows Carlo in Denmark and me in Kelowna, BC, Canada. Christian's photo is the "wallpaper" on Carlo's screen which provides a way to compare the over all quality of the video pics. The numbers below my pic on the right show how we set the call parameters for Quality at 40 and (Frame) Rate at 35. The bandwidth consumed is shown here.

At this time calls are made by entering "Call" plus the IP address as shown here in the lower left of the video window.

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Once the call is established you can enter Quality 40 followed by Rate 30.

Now here is a great trick. No other system I have seen can do this. Type in Mirror instead of Call. This places a call to yourself. Now set the Quality to any value from 4 to 128 and the Rate to a value form 1 to 70. You will see yourself as other's will see you.

The resloution is so good I can hold up what I call an "eye exam chart", i.e. a page of 11 point type and Carlo can read it. That is suburb resolution.

The audio quality is good too. All this puts more pressure on Skype to excel. :) :)