Sony's PCS-1

[alb]

Does anyone have experience inplementing Sony's PCS-1 system. Would you recommend it? If not what would your recommend.

[andres]

I have work with PCS-1 and almost all its add-ons.

PROs

XGA display output
superb camera both video quality and PTZ system (extra quiet)
enhanced external interfaces:
USB for mimio electronic whiteboard
propietary to PCS-DSB1 (external box with interface to PCs XGA display output & additional audio/video I/O)
Its propietary QoS algorithms work more than fine and in my opinion better than Polycom's Error Concealment... I have tried this on a parallel scenario.
External Speaker & mic array: CTE 600, the only accesory I haven't try

Excellente performance on the MCU IP, ISDN or mixed.

support of ITU compliant H.264, H.239

CONs

have some problems on the echo cancellation, Sony announced a new firmware 2.3 that is meant to fix this problem

[George]

Excellent reply andres. Thanks for helping out!

George

[tjulian]

I had, and still have, some problems connecting the PCS-1 to legacy equipment, and even with a ViewStation 512 with 7.5.x software running. It works beautifully with the vendor's PCS-1, so the end-user thinks its the other equipment, but they work with everything else...I don't think it plays well with others.

[jakob]

I think Sony is still working on the H.239 implementation.
It seems to change from one version to another, I'm really
curious to see if it interops.
Any experience here?

[mazzarak]

well H239 certainly doesn't work with Polycom equipment, and I don't think it works with Tandberg either.