QuickTime Conferencing Kit

The QuickTime Conferencing Kit is a hardware and software kit marketed by Apple Computer.
==Announcement==
The kit was originally announced as the Apple Media Conference Kit in February 1995 as part of several media conferencing packages scheduled to ship in the summer:The Executive Computer; Is Video Conferencing Coming of Age? by Laurie Flynn, The New York Times. 1995-02-15. Archived 2015-05-26.Apple readies data-sharing, videoconferencing packages, Network World. 1995-02-13.
*Apple Media Conference Kit for Macintosh ($200) — includes camera and software only.
*Apple Media Conference Pro Kit ($1,750) — includes the above with a hardware encoder and ISDN adapter board.
*Apple Complete Media Conferencing System ($6,000) — includes the above with a Macintosh computer and external speakers.
Beta versions of the conferencing kits were observed to be able to deliver good video quality at up to 30 frames per second on a local area network. However, the kits missed their original ship date targets.
==Releases==
The Quicktime Conferencing Kit (M4490LL/B) shipped on December 18, 1995 at a price of 289. Volume licensing was available through Apple's Claris subsidiary. The QuickTime Conferencing ISDN Kit (M4585LL/A) contained an ISDN NuBus card that shipped in the first quarter of 1996 at a price of $1750. A PCI version of the kit (M4616LL/A) followed in the next quarter.Apple Computer's QuickTime Conferencing Kit Now Shipping, Apple Computer. 1995-12-18.
===Kit contents===
*QuickTime Conferencing system extension
*QuickTime Conferencing Camera 100 and cables
*Apple Media Conference application
*Apple Media Conference online guide
*System 7.5.3 installer
*Apple QuickTime software
*Farallon Timbuktu Pro application
*Installation manual
*QuickTime Conferencing Camera 100 user's guide
===Supported formats===
*Video: QuickTime format (, , JPEG, Apple Video codecs)
*Photos: PICT format (542 x 492 pixels)
==References==
==External links==
*QuickTime Conferencing at Apple (archived 1996-10-22)
**Apple QuickTime Conferencing datasheet (archived 1996-10-22)
**QuickTime Conferencing Kit datasheet (PDF, mirrored)
*QuickTime Video Conferencing Camera 100 at madeApple
*QuickTime Conferencing at the Higher Intellect Vintage Computing Wiki
Category:Discontinued Apple products
Category:QuickTime
Category:1995 introductions