Title: On a Skype video conference this morning, I noticed the software did something very interesting. Instead of pixelating video when my crappy broadband internet connection slowed down briefly, it <i>zoomed</i>.<p>It was accomplished so smoothly I wouldn&#x27;t even have noticed except that I was talking with a room full of people on the other end and suddenly I couldn&#x27;t see the people on the sides any more.<p>Instead of reducing the full-frame video resolution when bandwidth grew scarce, as it usually does, instead this time Skype selected the middle portion of the frame and showed it clearly. It was very subtle. It was done completely smoothly. The effect was aesthetically pleasing, not disruptive at all, and an elegant solution.<p>Well done, Skype.
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