HD – Not just for your TV
When you think of HD, you probably think about that beautiful 42 inch flat screen in your living room beaming news, sports, entertainment all in beautiful 1080p. Soon, there will be a new HD setup in your living room – don’t worry, your flat screen stays where it is. I’m talking about HD Voice.
What is HD Voice?
Technical Definition: also called wideband voice, it refers to the use of wideband technology to provide a deeper clarity and better audio experience in VoIP Communications. Traditional telephony is based on sampling the sound stream 8,000 times a second, and constraining the reproduction of the sound spectrum to the range between 200Hz on the low end to 3.3KHz on the high end—and fitting it into a 64Kbps Bandwidth. In HD voice, a wideband codec doubles the sampling rate and more than doubles the width of the sound spectrum reproduced, from 50Hz to 7KHz. This adds significant depth and nuance to the transmitted sound—and it reduces the bandwidth requirement to 32Kbps, half that of PSTN transmission. via webopedia
Translation: Your calls sound really damn good.
Isn’t it funny that we, as consumers, have demanded (and received) improvements to our audio and visual entertainment systems, yet, when we pick up the phone and call our friends and family we’re perfectly content relying on a technology that hasn’t been improved in over 60 years? IP telephony is capable of fairly breathtaking sound improvements. It’s time for consumers to take a look at how HD Voice can improve the overall quality, accuracy and reliability of their phone experience.
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Here’s my challenge. I need to use my cable connection to get HD voice, right? And since my cable is Time Warner, I can never trust it will work when I need it. That my be an issue cause I live in mid town. Perhaps I just need to do it and use my cell if the home phone doesn’t work. Is there something else i should be thinking about in all this?