Videophones

English: Videophone Wikipedia article

NOTE:

1. for historical reference, this webpage also includes 20th Century still-image transmission devices, which were a less functional form of conventional videophones (and which are not to be confused with today's Video-enabled UMTS mobile phones, or camera-cellphones);
2. there are also other separate media repository articles and categories for:

• • Videoconferencing Systems and Components (for one-to-many and many-to-many conference calls using a Multipoint Control Unit (MCU), or its equivalent, unlike Videophones which are meant for one-to-one calls without an MCU)
  • Webcams (low-cost device meant for use with a computer)
  • Telepresence (high-end videoconferencing system using state-of-the-art technologies resulting in high definition video and audio)
  • Video-enabled UMTS mobile phones (mobile and cellphones with videocalling capablilities)
  • Video-enabled satellite phones (satellite phone systems meant for videocalls)

Videophones - Contemporary (since 2000)

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  Videophone in a public space in France.
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  Motorola Ojo Videophone 900, 2005.
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  Nortel IP Video Phone 1535, February 2008.
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  Deutsche Telekom T-View 100 ISDN type videophone meant for home offices and small businesses. Image March 2007.
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  UMTS Video call between Sweden and Singapore, Sony Ericsson K800 over a UMTS mobile network, Sep 2007.
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  Tandberg E20 Videophone
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  Tandberg E20 Videophone featuring Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales
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  Russian President Medvedev using a Tandberg Tactical MXP, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Ruslan Tsalikov during an emergency videoconference, November 2009
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  Russian President Medvedev using a Tandberg Tactical MXP, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Ruslan Tsalikov during an emergency videoconference, November 2009

Videophones - Near-recent (1976—1999)

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  The French Matra videophone (1970)
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  Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander using an Ericsson videophone to speak with Lennart Hyland, a popular TV show host (1969)
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  The Alcatel Visionis (1989)

Videophones - Historical (1925-1975)

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  1972-73 Mod II AT&T 'Picturephone', with its control pad nested within its circular base support.
  (Courtesy: LabguysWorld. com)
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  1972-73 Mod II AT&T 'Picturephone'. Note audio speaker that can almost be seen through the upper R.H. corner grill.
  (Courtesy: LabguysWorld. com)
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  1972-73 Mod II AT&T 'Picturephone', with control pad nested within circular support base.
  (Courtesy: LabguysWorld. com)
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  Close up view of camera and its reflector mirror on a 1972-73 Mod II AT&T 'Picturephone', for use with documents placed at the base.
  (Courtesy: LabguysWorld. com)
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  Right side view of AT&T Picturephone Mod II with cover removed exposing one of several internal PCBs.
  (Courtesy: 'LabguysWorld. com)
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  AT&T 'Picturephone' Mod II Control Pad (1972-73), close-up view.
  (Courtesy: 'LabguysWorld. com)

Videophones - Conceptual (1924 and prior)

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  Video telephony in the year 2000, as imagined in 1910. From a French postcard by Villemard, 1910. Paris, BNF, Estampes.
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  Telephonoscope videophone-television concept, a forecast for 1879, in the 9th December 1878 issue of Punch Magazine.
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  Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone 1914

Videophones - Subassemblies and components

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  Close up view of camera and its reflector mirror on a 1972-73 Mod II AT&T 'Picturephone', for use with documents placed at the base.
  (Courtesy: LabguysWorld. com)
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  AT&T 'Picturephone' Mod II of 1972-73, view showing serial number plate on the top surface
  (Courtesy: LabguysWorld. com)
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  Right side view of AT&T Picturephone Mod II with cover removed exposing one of several internal PCBs.
  (Courtesy: 'LabguysWorld. com)
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  AT&T 'Picturephone' Mod II Control Pad (1972-73), close-up view.
  (Courtesy: 'LabguysWorld. com)
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  AT&T 'Picturephone' Mod II of 1972-73, exposed upper-rear view, with its unit cover removed.
  (Courtesy: 'LabguysWorld. com)
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  AT&T 'Picturephone' Mod II of 1972-73, left side view with cover removed exposing some of its inner components.
  (Courtesy: 'LabguysWorld. com)

Videophones - Sundry images

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  Video telephony in the year 2000, as imagined in 1910. From a French postcard by Villemard, 1910. Paris, BNF, Estampes.
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  Telephonoscope videophone-television concept, a forecast for 1879, in the 9th December 1878 issue of Punch Magazine.