The main reason for this change derives from the subsequent failure in telecommunications to develop a fast, inexpensive alternative to broadcasting movies. Now, almost a decade after the introduction of pictures on the Web, the cost of transmitting moving images is still prohibitive compared to television. Even after a century of telephone technology, videophones are little more than an amusing novelty device and not the widespread platform predicted over forty years ago. The Word is out, literally. As in finished or obsolete.
Sound is in.
Digital video recording service from Microsoft.