ZicklePop Productions

Last Sunday I took part in listening to my first live netcast! Net@Nite and it was good times. They do it via Talkshoe. Talkshoe is a VoIP-like service in which people host a kind of radio show and can allow callers. Kind of like Larry King Live only younger.

The client is new and has a awkward interface but it isn’t to bad but it takes some time to get used to especially since you cannot just launch the client, you have to launch it from their website which is slow during the Net@Nite netcast and the popularity of the ex-TechTV host of Call for Help, Leo Laporte.
When I questioned the quality of the Skype-call I was listening to so I could hear the podcast, this is what Brian Schuliger said:

Hi ZicklePop,

Voice Over IP is not prime-time yet. It took the telecommunications industry tens of years to get landline quality where it is today - with noise cancelation, echo cancellation, reduced latency, etc. etc…. and Digital Signal Processing is on every line (connection) now in the telephony infrastructure that is PSTN (Packet Switched Telephone Network). As VoIP has just really been introduced, hopefully the industry will rush to do the same - but they have a built-in disincentive to NOT improve VoIP (they can’t monetize it nearly as well).

It is NOT skype, nor SJPhone (OpenSource free solution), not TalkShoe. It is VoIP. Try calling in on a regular (landline) phone or even a cell phone and then comment on they quality!

Cheers, Brian (the TalkShoe team)

Thanks to Brian, TalkShoe, Leo, and Amber for their good work!