Cisco’s Telepresence Video Chat is anticipated for Homes Next Week [Video Calling]

We’ve been hearing for a long time that Cisco was eager to get down with Joe Blow at streetlevel, so it’s by no means surprising to hear that next week they’re rumored to unveil a ” cheap” home-telepresence product.

When we say cheap, we mean it won’t cost so much more than one of their Flip camcorders, at around $200 subsidized. AllThingsD is hearing that at a press event next Wednesday Cisco will launch the service with either Comcast or Verizon, and that the unsubsidized price can be around the $500 mark.

For years now Cisco has been demo-ing its telepresence technology, which has been available to businesses keen to video conference all over.

There’s an obvious desire for Cisco to get this technology into homes, but when Skype is already on many computers and TVs-for gratis-it is going to be a struggle to convince Mums and Dads they have to shell out a couple hundred notes for something that only really offers greater HD resolution.

Sitting in front of a TV and video-chatting sadly isn’t that much of a singular angle for Cisco. [ AllThingsD ]

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