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Which company will be the first

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Which company will be the first to integrate a camera into the back of an LCD panel? Right now the thing that puts people of using video connections is the way in which it looks like the person you're chatting with isn't looking at you. What we need is a camera that is integrated into the display so that when you look at the other persons picture it looks like you're looking at them.

To be honest I'm surprised we haven't seen one done yet, how hard could it be? Cameras only need a pin hole to get enough light for an image, so why not just have one bad pixel that is actually the pin hole for the camera? I'd put up with one bad pixel if it meant I could have more eye contact in video chats.

What do you think? Would you put up with one bad pixel for the sake of better video?

Posted by Carl Tyler On 02/02/2008 | Permalink |

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1 - actually, you do not need to give up a pixel to make it work. Just have a large electro magnetic field to bend the light waves.

Posted by Glen At 07:55:28 AM On 02/03/2008 | - Website - |

2 - Actually, this pixel (or pixels - somehow I am sceptical that just one pixel would be sufficent) does not have to be "bad". It would be enough to swith it to transparent when the video call begins.

Posted by Gregory Engels At 02:17:11 PM On 02/03/2008 | - Website - |

3 - Umm. Get a mac. They all have wee webcams built into the screen. So when I'm on Skype with my family, I just put their video at the top. No mess, no fuss.

---* Bill

Posted by Wild Bill At 04:17:02 AM On 02/04/2008 | - Website - |

4 - And I believe Apple already have the patent on that one....

Posted by Warren Elsmore At 07:48:22 AM On 02/04/2008 | - Website - |

5 - @3 Well my regular PC just like the Apple PC also has a camera built into the screen, but the eye contact on both of them is still a little off unless you sit a few feet back from the screen.

@4 So maybe we'll see Apple doing it first...

Posted by Carl Tyler At 09:29:35 AM On 02/04/2008 | - Website - |