One of the most talked about ISDN applications is videoconferencing. Now the concept of personal, desktop videoconferencing is available using common personal computers and workstations. One channel is used for voice, and the other channel is used for the display of moving video pictures. The price for videoconferencing is dropping so quickly, that it is expected to be affordable to most businesses by late 1993. Along similar lines, is a shared electronic chalk board.
Users can talk in a conference arrangement and also illustrate written ideas to remote locations.
Slide presentations could also be given in this manner. Everyone appreciates the simple fact that is it possible to have the single phone jack do more than one task. The modem no longer needs to tie up the phone line. It is even possible to troubleshoot computers remotely by simultaneously talking to the computer operator and logging into that system remotely with the same ISDN line. But there are certainly far more exciting uses for this technology.