Panasonic's TY-CC10W webcam joins Skype, HDTVs mostly because it can

Panasonic is back with more information on its four-mic packing HDTV camera accessory, the TY-CC10W. Skype friends who would like to see your living room without actually visiting can take a peek in either 30fps VGA or 720p/22fps h.264 encoded streams, courtesy of any nearby video phone compatible VIERA Cast TVs this can mount on top of and plug into via USB. We're (probably the only ones) waiting for a Chatroulette couch surfing client, but if you prefer your internet face-to-face meetings without the PC then ¥18,000 ($193) on June 11 will make it yours in Japan, no word on U.S. availability.

[Zac89 Posted Apr 20th 2010 9:46AM]

I'd feel like Marty McFly with a webcam on my TV..

Back to the Future is here folks!!

[DoctarPeppar Posted Apr 20th 2010 9:55AM]

Hmm let's see...guy jerking off, penises, more penises....hey can I be your friend on facebook? yeah hold on....*unzip* -- all from your couch on an HDTV! Awesome!

[Saber Posted Apr 20th 2010 11:15AM]

@DoctarPeppar

ROTFLMO

[htd Posted Apr 20th 2010 9:58AM]

any webcam that can trace sound for consumer? we have that in our conference.

[Eternity Posted Apr 20th 2010 10:27AM]

Big brother is watching you....

[untitled Posted Apr 20th 2010 11:01AM]

Natel?

[Liamness Posted Apr 20th 2010 11:15AM]

Why is it so massive and wide?

[heartychoke Posted Apr 20th 2010 12:33PM]

@Liamness

"four-mic packing HDTV camera"

The four mics allow the camera to do more effective noise cancellation by differentiating between sounds that come from straight ahead - typically the video conferencer - and sounds that come from the side - typically noise.

The way this works is that sounds from front will arrive at the four microphones relatively simultaneously, while sounds from the side arrive at the closest mic first, then the second closest, on down the line to the fourth mic. The signal processor onboard the camera can tell the difference in time that the side originating "noise" arrives that the closest and furthest mic, and can cancel it out.

Obviously, the farther apart the mics, the more time elapses before a sound impulse hits each one, the better the noise cancellation. Feel educated?

[techlord Posted Apr 20th 2010 11:59AM]

HD?

[Billy Gun Posted Apr 20th 2010 1:02PM]

That is Project Natal!

Pew Pew Pew!

[nsfw Posted Apr 20th 2010 4:07PM]

Press release translated says, " VT2, V2, D2 series, now 20 April 2010, including those to be released.。 Models already released, after the farm up is available."

Wonder if this hardware is going to work with the G20/25?