Videoconferencing, Video Teleconferencing, VTC??

[signalgrunt]

Hi all,

I just wanted to ask the question, what do you call this great industry of ours where you are from?

I know that on the military side we always call it VTC which is short for Video Teleconferencing (2 seperate words). But outside of my world I often find that people call it almost everything but VTC. It can get confusing, especially when you're surfing the net for information on the subject . Luckily we have this site so that shouldn't be too big of a problem anymore :D :). I've seen it called..


Videoconferencing (all together 1 word)
Video Conferencing (seperated 2 words)
Video Teleconferencing (seperated 2 words)
Videoteleconferencing (all together 1 word)
Picture Conferencing
Video Communications
and just plain Conferencing.


What do they generally call it where you are from?

[MACC the AVCOtek]

Here in my office we generally refer to the phenomenon as VTC. Which can sometimes confuse our sales folks 'cause we sometimes refer to the actual codec as a VTC as well. But confusing salespeople is sometimes the only joy I get in a day.... :devious:

[mazzarak]

most of the time I just call it VC.
That is when I'm not cursing it ;)

[jrshaw]

what do you call this great industry of ours

This is a pet interest of mine. I've collected about 20 synonymies:

Cyber Schools, Distance Education, Distance Learning, Distributed Learning, eLearning (e-learning), Electronic Field Trip (eFieldTrip, EFT), Interactive Distance Learning (IDL), Interactive Instructional Video (IIV), Interactive Videoconference (IV, IVC), Picture Telephone, Televideo Conference, Videoconference (VC, Vidcon, Vidconf, Videoconf), Video TV (VTV), Video-telephone, Video Teleconference (VTC), Video Telepresence, Video Teletraining, Videonet (Vidnet), Videophone, Virtual Classrooms, Virtual Field Trip (VFT), Virtual Learning

I've seen people apply each of these terms to the kind of videoconferenced-based distance learning that we do at SeaTrek.

[Keisuke Hashimoto]

Interesting thread.

In Japan, we call it

Japanese = English
Terebi Kaigi = TV conferencing
Bideo Kaigi = video conferencing
Eizo Kaigi (rarely used) = video conferencing
Terebi Denwa Kaigi (rarely used)= TV phone conferencing

Terebi Denwa = TV phone
Bideo Denwa = Video phone
Bideo Fon = video phone

It is confusing for some people especially end users as some video vendors in Japan use "Terebi Kaigi" while others use "Bideo Kaigi". Some people asked me what is the difference between "Terebi Kaigi" and "Bideo Kaigi".

keis

[Skylark]

Icelandic = English 8)

Fajrfundabúnaður = Video conference
SÃ*mfundabúnaður = Teleconfernce
Brú = MCU

[Lperez]

Hello:

For me, the question has always been "Is it one or two words?" I prefer to spell it "videoconferencing", but an increasing number of people write "video conferencing". (Some who separate it seem to be on the periphery of this; people who don't write it type it a hundred times a day.) I've even seem collaborative documents that have it both ways in one document.

Another point of confusion is people who talk about teleconferencing. Some of them are referring to videoconferencing and some to audioconferencing. Whenever they start with "I want to do a teleconference," it takes a little more questioning to see what they really want to do.

Lisa Perez

[Morgan81]

Is it just me or does the term, "VideoTeleconference" drive anyone else nuts?
To me, you can have a "Videoconference" or a "Teleconference"(synonym for audioconference), but you can't do both. I know that term has been around forever but it just dosen't make sense to me.

Maybe I'm just being too technical....

[George]

The way you put it actually makes it make even more sense. You can have video without audio, and audio withotu video. So if you take a Videoconference (video) and a Teleconference (audio) and put them together you have a VideoTeleconference with video and audio.

Now that... was being too technical :classic:

[jeremy]

I remember back in the CLI and PictureTel days when EVERYBODY called it "video teleconferencing" (anybody ever work in any of the Sears or IBM video teleconferencing rooms?). I still hear people call it that once in a while... It seems that most people in the videoconferencing industry just call it "videoconferencing"...

What did the Jetson's call it...?

[Yesterday]

I thought I was the only one who thought this nomenclature thing was a problem. We're working with one group that insists on calling it V-Tel. "Teleconference" just causes confusion since "tele-" is used with both telephone (audio) and television (video). Personally, I like Video Conferencing, because it has such nice symmetry with Audio Conferencing and Web Conferencing.

[Glen Sykes]

Personally I can't stand the term videoteleconference, although it has been around a long time (anyone remember a company called Link-VTC?). It just seems like a jumble of words to me.

I like it plain and simple:

collaborativeconvergedvisualinteractivetelepresenc e-conferencing

*phew*