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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: Closed-circuit television, Video coding, Key frame, Videophone, Videoconferencing, Mechanical television, Digital signage, List of video telecommunication services and product brands, Live event support, Telectroscope, Martin Rieser, Network Abstraction Layer, Visual networking, List of video services using H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, Scientific Working Group - Imaging Technology, Digital recording, SUPER, AdChina, Arbitrary slice ordering, Flexible Macroblock Ordering, Recording at the edge, InterVideo WinDVR, EVS Broadcast Equipment, IP camera, Wireless security camera, Video server, Corporate video, Video mail, Scan conversion, JumboTron, MVaaS, Idesktop.tv, SeeToo, Electronics Line USA, Road Bandit, Video aggregator, Vigilant Technology, Stock Exchange of Visions, BullsHit Converter, Sandin Image Processor, Video Quality in Public Safety, Xedio, Multicam, Pan tilt zoom camera, Video capture, FocusVision, OpenCube Technologies, ONELAN, Vook, Tapeless, Xt(2), IPDirector, Maine Video Activists Network, Telephonoscope, Loop recording, Oneminutes, ZConvert, Video Continuity, Immersive video, Video ecard, Compression Networks, Video interlude. Excerpt: A videophone is a telephone with a video screen, and is capable of full duplex (bi-directional) video and audio transmissions for communication between people in real-time. It was the first form of videotelephony, later to be followed by videoconferencing, webcams, and finally telepresence. At the dawn of the technology, videotelephony also included image phones which would exchange still images between units every few seconds over conventional POTS-type telephone lines, essentially the same as slow scan TV systems. Currently videophones are particularly useful to the deaf and speech-impaired who can use them with sign language, and also with video relay services to communicate w...