Thanks for the responses about Skype....I recall attempting to communicate a few years ago in this manner by the Web (although it wasn't Skype I was using) but it was too slow (i.e., the audio was very choppy and the video experienced quite a bit of lag time...too much lag for me at the time). Skype is almost real-time for me (both audio and video plus the video is very good quality)....in fact, if I connect my laptop to my HD TV (which is piped into my stereo system speakers) I could just about jam with someone anywhere in the world and, with the quality of HD TVs with their huge screens, it would almost be like we were in the same room together (particularly, if they're also connected into a HD TV at their end as well...I'm just supposing here; I haven't actually done this).....i.e., I like what I've experienced with Skype at this point.

Speaking of connecting via a HD TV, one could easily pipe a band (via Skype) playing in one's living room (or wherever) to anyplace in the world that had a HD TV (at the receiving end connected to a nice speaker system) and I'm convinced it would almost be like being there live!!!

Has anyone tried another such communication product that might even be better than Skype for communicating over the Web? Just curious!!

Again thanks,
cchallum