iChat & AIM

For the very first time in my experience I get to chat with an Mac user
who happens to be a friend too. So I'm trying to make use of iChat and
have encountered difficulties:

If we both wear headsets we avoid feedback. If either has a live
speaker on it feeds back with the respondent as well as the room noise.

When I see Jobs and Madonna, they don't seem to need such remedies.
What are we doing wrong?

And another:

Can an AIM or Yahoo Messenger user connect to us in (our) ichat text
communication?

Video communication?

All help appreciated.
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Thank you and have a nice day.

gtr wrote:

> When I see Jobs and Madonna, they don't seem to need such remedies.
> What are we doing wrong?

Maybe you are not using an expensive noise-cancelling speaker-mike combo
specially made for conference video calls and the like?
There are such gadgets available, but they are relatively expensive.
Stick with the earplugs. By the way, a good mike (like the one in the
standalone iSight camera) is also a great help. If it is directional, it
can also help cancel echoes by eliminating unwanted input from the
speakers, depending on mike/speaker positioning, and it will improve
input quality no matter what.

It is actualla very basic problem with amplified sound that you are
encountering, basically the same one you get a painful reminder of when
someone creates a howl in a PA system. The sound bounces from the
speaker directly back into the mike, then again and again, and sometimes
you get a self-feeding spiral effect (howl), at other times you get
annoying echoes. It depends on the timing and the kind of equipment
used.
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