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videophone A telephone with a built-in camera and screen for visual, real-time communications. After AT&T debuted its Picturephone at the New York World's Fair in 1964, many expected videophones to become widely used within a few years. However, it was almost 30 years later, in the early 1990s that AT&T introduced its VideoPhone-branded line of phones at $1,000 each, and a pair was required at minimum. Other videophone vendors entered the market, but the bandwidth limitation of dial-up phone lines, the high cost of entry and the lack of a standard kept videophones from taking off.Nevertheless, due to high-speed cable and DSL, videophoning eventually became popular on the computer via software. Offering free video calling worldwide in 2006, Skype popularized the videophone experience. See video calling, Webcam, Skype, videoconferencing and Picturephone.
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