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A recent advertisement for HD contact lenses set a new standard for marketing hubris and brought into focus the growing confusion over the meaning of “High Definition.” Regrettably, HD is becoming a catch-all term for “better video,” whether or not it actually meets accepted technical standards for HD image quality. In the video space, where specifications should truly mean something, HD apparently refers to the number of pixels that are sent to a video monitor, regardless of the quality of the information in those pixels. Telepresence technology looks at HD solutions from a different approach: the quality of the information contained in those pixels is just as important as the number.

Nowhere is a precise, technical meaning of HD more important than in the growing field of life-like videoconferencing, where large amounts of information must be transmitted in real time and utilized interactively. Because life-like videoconferencing – also called telepresence – is designed to replicate an in-person meeting experience with great clarity and precision, it requires large bandwidth to achieve high quality results.

For example, DreamWorks Animation interconnects multiple HD-caliber videoconferencing, story board and editing suites so that creative teams can collaborate in the production of films. As recently described in Wired and BusinessWeek, the stream of video and audio information between each DreamWorks location consumes over 20 megs of high quality bandwidth. This enormous requirement can be visualized by imagining a home furnace that must be fed by a giant oil pipeline in order to provide sufficient fuel to heat a house.

Most companies, of course, are not in the film animation business and are therefore unwilling to pay for this extraordinary quantity of broadband. Providing these enterprises with a high quality videoconferencing capability requires a different approach – the use of sophisticated compression technology that reduces video information by 80% or more before it is transmitted, and then restores the data stream at the other end. The job becomes particularly tricky when HD-caliber videoconferencing is desired.

With the exception of “pure HD,” as implemented by DreamWorks, videoconferencing – as a practical, cost effective service for businesses – is technically incapable of replicating the HD technical standards associated with broadcast television. Too much information needs to be removed/restored via the compression process to replicate broadcast quality HD, which employs cameras, recording devices and transmission equipment that far exceed what a typical corporation could afford.

Thus, a new specification for HD videoconferencing should be established – one based on the amount and quality of the source information – rather than simply the pixels – delivered to an end-point. Such a specification would level the playing field for vendors, eliminate hubristic marketing claims and, most importantly, help buyers make informed decisions about the systems they purchase.

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Telepresence is Transparent
In order to be successful and truly change the way companies do business across distance using telepresence, no matter whether its Personal Telepresence or otherwise, the telepresence technology can in no way interferes with the meeting conversation, it must be natural. This is a simple statement, but one that takes into account several factors that together accomplish the details necessary for a natural meeting experience.

As with the larger systems, Personal Telepresence has to accomplish the same objectives as a fully built out four or five screen room. No matter how many participants or how many site locations; a true telepresence meeting must have precise and uncompromised eye-to-eye contact. Participants must be able to look in any direction and see eye-to-eye, off to the sides and vice versa. Each person also needs to be able to hear directionally, from their location at the virtual table AND be able to interrupt each other without delay – all interactions that we take for granted during a face-to-face meeting.

All of these technological challenges were the root of why many lost confidence in traditional videoconferencing, a technology solution plagued with blurry images, out-of-sync lip movements, frustrating audio delays and shoddy sound quality. Today’s technological advances that make up true telepresence solve these visual and audio inadequacies and feed into the goal of capturing non-verbal cues such as facial expressions and body movements – the interactions that people would interpret and engage in if they were sitting across the table.

From an audio/visual perspective, telepresence features directional sound and broadcast-quality video that allows conversations to take place in real time and participants to make eye contact. As a result, the meeting experience is transparent, intimate and effective. Essentially, a true telepresence meeting evokes an emotional experience whereas videoconferencing with its lifeless images and jerky sound and even self-start HD videoconferencing historically could never accomplish.

Personal Telepresence, along with other varying types of other telepresence solutions, were essentially created to provide an alternative to travel, a way to communicate with people across the world at a moment’s notice. It is not the size of the system, the number of screens or the resolution that accomplishes this feat, it is the combination of an immersive set of technologies wrapped with a managed service and extended reach network that together provide an unmatched solution for companies to cut travel and carbon emissions, collaborate more effectively, create a better work / life balance for their employees and even secure a business continuity plan.

Telepresence possesses Interoperability & Agility
Whether a Personal Telepresence solution or a three, four, or even five screen fully-built out room, telepresence needs to be agile enough to integrate with other telepresence and traditional videoconferencing units within the same organization, with partners and customers without losing the immersive experience. If this is not possible, telepresence becomes an island and one that will quickly fizzle out in usage and diminish ROI in prior videoconferencing and telepresence systems. As important as the connectivity agility is extended reach. Personal Telepresence is agile for a number of reasons – size, ease-of-use and if it’s the right solution, it also has an extended network reach that can allow telepresence calls from any corner of the world AND connect with any of the other vendor solutions.

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Surveillance means to keep a watch which over someone or something, and with new equipment and additional features available, you can use developed surveillance equipment TREO SURVEILLANCE KIY as a weapon for your protection. With this type of equipment you can keep a watch over the affairs of your home and office all the time. These are the places of most concern as a person is always worried about their family when they are at the workplace and there is always worry about how the business is faring when one is away from the work site. Equipments available for surveillance can provide you records of all the activities of your home, when at the office and vice versa. Not only recorded audio-video images can be seen, but live transmission is possible, which shall enable you to know about everything at the moment that it is actually happening and not a second later!

Almost every type of surveillance equipment is in the form of a hidden camera, which does not allow the person to know that he or she is under observation. Wherever and whenever you need to spy upon the babysitter of your child, house cleaner, whether your car is safe in the garage and many more things which may concern you when you are at home or even when you are away. Likewise, there are many things about your workplace which need proper attention, but it is not practical for anyone to be in the office the entire day. At this point, when you need someone to look after your workplace when you are not there, surveillance equipment TREOCAM shall be the most reliable option upon which one can depend without any doubt. Being at home, you can monitor every activity related to your workplace and even when you are in the office, you can be rest assured that employees are performing their duties as instructed, secret details of your business are safe and many more things, for which you would otherwise have to visit different areas of your workplace.

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From functionality to aesthetics, the modern TV is absolutely a far cry from the initial CRT version. These ubiquitous state-of-the-art LCD and Plasma sets also no longer just bring pastime entertainment. Free TV On PC has actually become such a big part of daily life that watching it is a necessity in order to stay in tune with society.

All kinds of programming are available on TV now. Gone are the days when people switched on the TV and watched what’s scheduled, take it or leave it. Nowadays, viewers are picky with what they watch with their valuable time and as if to condone that, they are indeed spoilt for choice.

There’s on-demand TV for those who are targeted on what they want, pay-per-view for that special hot telecast, subscription TV for those who won’t tolerate commercials and then also the standard broadcast programming. There’re options to the options too, these programming can come via cable, satellite, antennae or internet line.

The transmission speed of the internet has been hugely boosted with the advent of broadband. With that, IPTV which had long been stifled in that respect can now soar to its potential. Given the kind of penetration that internet has into households, IPTV is undoubtedly positioned to be the technology of choice for TV.

One form of IPTV definitely appears poised to take the TV market by storm. Known by various terms such as Free Satellite TV PC, Internet TV on PC, Online Satellite TV and so forth, they are basically FTA broadcasts propagated and accessed over the internet as free TV on PC.

Most households have a PC with internet access anyway and they’re all that’s needed to watch free TV on PC. If navigating in search of these freebies is too bothersome, then there’re the commercial service providers to turn to. You can still watch TV on Computer free but there’s generally a one-time fee for the software.

The combination of TVPC has gained quite a fan base. Those who have tried it swear by the benefits and the leading providers can have it up in a matter of minutes. However, there are scams too so patronize only those offered by established retailers like Clickbank and come with full money-back guarantee.

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We have often told our children never to trust strangers, but can we ourselves trust the nanny or babysitter we our self appoint to look after our kids? Not really! In todays big, bad world trusting people is very difficult and when the big question is about your own child, it’s really tough! To give your kid complete security you could install a security nanny camera in your home. The spy cam will help you monitor all happenings at home, be it the nanny’s behavior with your child, the helpers working at home or a simple worker who has come to fix up your television!! We have all types of spy cameras with high end quality camera lens and body delivering high resolution, picture quality, etc.

Many of us having big business setups find it very difficult to mange and supervise over the entire office or store. Hence setting up a network of security cams can help you monitor your workplace easily. For example if you need to watch over your store you could set up a security camera near the cash register, one at the warehouse, one near the sales area and one at the entrance - this way you will be able to monitor the entire place without having to visit each section. One should choose a camera smartly so that it blends well with the interiors of your office. You could opt for a flush mount camera or a built in wall camera. You could adjust the camera lens of the mounted cameras before setting them up. Dome shaped cameras also look very attractive in offices. These dome coverings are very strong and protect the camera inside it. Another advantage of a dome camera is that one can never point out were exactly the camera lens is pointing to.

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In today’s time any common man can avail spy camera equipment for his advantage. Earlier such spy camera and gadgets were only used by detectives or police personnel’s etc. Today ordinary people from different professions want to secure their family and workplace. Businessmen expanding their business often take help of such spy camera equipment to monitor their work and all their employees. Today parents cannot trust leaving their child alone at home with newly appointed nannies because of wide spread fear about child abuse cases and kidnappings. Every person has a right to protection and can select the right spy camera or other spy camera equipment for himself.

The most important point would be to make the right kind of selection which requires you to evaluate your security needs. You have to decide upon the kind of spy camera equipment you require - whether you need a home security system to keep an eye on your child’s nanny or a network of cameras for your office. Some parents need equipment to monitor their own child to find out why he is behaving strangely or to see the friends he is mingling with. For such requirements, you need to install a hidden nanny can which is available in disguised forms inside a radio, clock, toothbrush, air purifiers, smoke detectors, etc. Sometimes you don’t feel too secured because of your own neighborhood and you feel strange about a particular neighbor then you could avail an outdoor spy camera equipment to keep a strict vigil around your house.

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Having access to most of the material things that are available in different countries has turned into a reality, especially since the time computer technology has initiated. Computers have provided us with the opportunity to fulfill our desires, such as shopping without visiting the shop, booking for hotel rooms for a holiday, booking air tickets, gathering knowledge regarding any subject and many more things can be done just with a few clicks, which no one could ever even dream about in earlier times. Likewise, cameras which were usually considered to be a luxurious item and mainly used in certain professions, have now expanded its usage from a video device to a security device. Hence these security cameras have become a part of everyone’s life for secure and safe living. Nanny cameras are most widely used in today’s hectic life, where maximum percentage of parents are dependent upon a babysitter or nanny to provide the required and best possible care to their children. So to know exactly what is happening in your home, nanny pen cameras can also be a suitable option.

Nanny pen cameras are structured exactly like a regular pen for writing. Apart from writing, this type of pen is very successful in clearing your doubts about anyone you suspect, all the most to spy on the nanny and find out whether she proves to be a good nanny or not. These types of pen shaped nanny cams do not require any wiring as those are wireless hidden cameras and run on batteries, which can easily be recharged as and when required. Like a regular pen you can easily carry it along with you wherever you move or place it on a desk.

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Congratulations to you on your decision to buy a nanny camera! All parents want to provide full security to their children! Whenever walking out of their home they always pray for their children to be safe when they return back! Many parents simply cannot trust their children’s nannies even after they have taken a full fledged interview and checked their past records! They always feel insecure about the kids being handled by their nannies. I would say it’s a very normal feeling! One should always feel little in secured and cautious about leaving their kids with the nanny. It helps you to provide more security to your family. We are here to help you protect your family and children by helping you choose an apt nanny camera for your home. One can choose from different nanny cams available with us for example a hidden spy cam, a disguised nanny camera or a nanny camera with sound.

To choose the right camera for your house, you should select a camera suitable for your particular security needs. Clients can choose a nanny cam which is disguised in form of regular home objects like clocks, sharpeners, bags, lamps etc which can be placed on your kids study table or in your room shelf without the nanny having the slightest doubts about a camera hidden in front of her. Such disguised spy cameras are wireless and hence portable and can be carried to the site of requirement. The most important function in a camera is the sound so it is better to select a nanny camera with sound for your home. If the nanny camera you install is recording some important evidences but does not have a supportive audio system, the evidence you have recorded will not be effective enough to prove the crime.

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The Advent of Personal Telepresence
Most companies that have looked into telepresence expect to save money with their purchase, but the specifics of what the solution needs to have wrapped around it is part and parcel to achieving the best results. Essentially there are four critical elements that separate Personal Telepresence from a traditional videoconferencing system.

Collaboration capabilities in Telepresence
Collaboration capabilities are also important to telepresence technology since the objective is ultimately to faithfully replicate an in-person meeting. Telepresence allows participants to feel as if they are in the same room with colleagues across distance, but what about having the ability to act as if in the same room? Newly released collaboration options including surface computing solutions and virtual whiteboards that allow multiple types of content to be manipulated and shared over many locations have helped to bridge the physical to digital divide that has challenged telepresence and traditional videoconferencing in the past. As system price points move from fully built-out rooms to Personal Telepresence, the array of collaboration tools pares down. The more basic options offered by all the main vendors such as presentation screens (either separate or picture-in-picture) and document cameras have been a mainstay option across all telepresence solutions.

Telepresence: Reliability and Ease-of-Use
Creating telepresence technology to execute a natural meeting experience is only part of the solution that makes telepresence viable and successful for companies to communicate over distance. A telepresence meeting is only valuable if it’s reliable. Reliability is not a sidebar to true telepresence, it’s required. It is critical to inculcating telepresence throughout all levels of the organization. The key to reliability lies with a managed service, but there is much confusion in the market about what this actually means. A telepresence managed service means that all components are monitored and tested before each meeting and appropriate adjustment are made remotely (a certain level of instrumentation needs to be designed into the telepresence solution to enable of instrumentation needs to be designed into the telepresence solution to enable remote adjustments). The managed services needs to be guaranteed with an ironclad SLA and integrated into the appropriate company scheduling system. Whether Personal Telepresence solutions are self-start or if the call is initiated through a concierge service is less important – it’s the guarantee that a managed service provides that a meeting will happen, without compromise.

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Modern science and technology has given us gadgets and devices beyond our imagination. Let us take the pinhole camera for instance. Which dishonest spouse would think that his partner is recording all evidence against him through the button of her blouse which he himself had gifted her for their anniversary! Or maybe you are spying on her through the expensive pen you gave her on her birthday. Not many!! The advent of modern science has even given rise to the darker side of life where people are stabbing each other behind their back, where your innocent children are being assaulted and abused by caretakers, where the employee you trusted is leaking out all your important office news, etc. What one needs to do is take responsibility! Become aware! Keep a watch! Yes, this is exactly what a spy camera can do for you! Help you keep a watch over things and situations beyond your reach.

It’s high time; everyone stands up and becomes aware about protecting their family and work. We present to you a variety of security cameras, which you can use as an advantage for yourself. If you and your spouse are working and have to leave your dear child alone at home with the nanny you have appointed, you could get a small nanny cam installed in your house to watch over her behavior with your child because all nannies are not the same! More than us, the local newspapers can tell you about recent nanny abuses and about the nannies being caught red handed. If the issue is as sensitive as your own spouse or girlfriend cheating on you, you could se our pinhole camera to track down all their activities and conversations.

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Increasing sale of spy cams has proved that it is worth to hide a spy camera for reasons of surveillance and security. More and more people are getting aware of crime and unlawful trespassers on the prowl. You can call us today to help you hide a spy camera in your office, home, shops or any other property where you feel the need to protect. Parents who need to appoint nannies to take care of their children are often worried about the welfare of their kids being taken care of by babysitters. Parents often are under mental pressure about leaving kids alone at home which often result in decrease of their work productivity. Many such parents are contacting us to hide a spy camera in their homes to help relive this tension. After they have installed such nanny cameras they can now peacefully view all activities at home from their office or shop.

Many individuals hide a spy camera in their retail shops and warehouse without the knowledge of their staff so as to keep a vigil over all actions of the employees. One can even install monitoring software apart from hidden cams to keep a watch on your employees. People call on us to hide a spy camera for any reason you want to. Some want to keep a watch over babysitters while some want to install spy cams to protect their homes from trespassers while there are some spouses who want to spy their partners who have been unfaithful to them. We have all kinds of cameras in different sizes to suit respective security needs. There are various types of cameras available, out of which the common ones are a portable spy camera which can be carried with you and used when you want to. Another is a spy camera with micro chip which can record all activities without the knowledge of anyone realizing so. These cameras are often installed in pens, buttons or calculators for better views. Surveillance cameras are used when a client needs to hide a spy camera to watch over a specific area. The most popular spy cameras are the cameras disguised for your advantage. These disguised cameras are designed to be placed in different objects such as clocks, lamps, picture frames, air purifiers, teddy bear, other toys, bags, etc. to be placed in homes without disturbing the décor harmony of the place.

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Appreciation must be specified to the inventors of the good number modern innovative electrical devices devoid of which our standard of living and every day responsibilities would have been extremely complicated to conclude up swiftly without wasting much time. Prior when there were no such conveniences it was very difficult to tackle the situations conveniently and intelligently. We are very privileged that we are born in the new scientific period where there are latest procedures at our assistance to facilitate us at each pace all the way through the day for our comforts. The spy cams or the hidden cameras are one of the latest equipments which have taken its place in the market especially designed for our comforts. By the means of suitable devices we can feel free in completing our everyday jobs that bring out our resourcefulness and uniqueness. We can have many opportunities of expansion in our work agendas. By the use of these cameras, we can relax, take our time and give our affective enthusiasm an innovative enhances. An increase of our special liveliness altitude depends on a great arrangement on our abilities obviously, but if we have to accomplish straight forwardness in assured matters then we have to identify the advantages of the latest technologies we have at our aid.

Security is the foremost necessity of humans. Be it a house or a work place, safe and preventive measures have to be taken before any untoward incident takes place. Earlier when there were no such equipments or hidden cameras in the market, our ancestors had to employ and trust the security guards for the protection of our house or business locations. But now we can make our day and secure ourselves with the new innovative spy cams and see how our life will get changed by just changing some of our old procedures of work with the new ones. We cannot easily trust anybody for our safety and relax in peace. We have to be alert in every aspect of our life. After the installation of the spy cams we can easily observe the mischief which is being created during our absence in our office or house.

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With the best PC software reviews, you can get what you have paid for. Most people are not aware of what these reviews can do for them and so they end up buying the wrong item. With the best reviews on PC software, you can evaluate the item even before you spend on it. In that way, you get the best deal without compromising the quality and the value. To learn more on Pc Software reviews, just follow this link now, just follow this link now.

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Every day, Apple iPhone are getting more and more popular. Do you know that there are more than 15 000 iPhone applications for it and new ones are coming out every day? You can get some for free or purchase them, depending on the application.

It’s easy to purchase iPhones online as well as its various applications. There is a good chance you will find an application you might like and possibly need. Just follow this link now to discover all the different software available for your iPhone.

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I only buy the best. From hdmi cables to audiophile speaker cables, my entertainment system looks and sounds the best out of all the systems on the block. Why? Because I only buy the best! You see, when I wasn’t sure which cables to buy, I read the article “Choosing the Right Home Theater Cables.” It walked me through exactly what I needed to know and allowed me to choose the right cables for my system. If you want your system to be top-of-the-line, you should read that article as well.

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There is a specific technical criterion associated with Teliris’ telepresence solutions. In pioneering the technology behind telepresence, Teliris has developed unique and sophisticated: encoding/decoding equipment as well as special lenses and track systems.

Teliris’ encoding/decoding equipment deploys broadcast quality codecs with ultra-low latency. This ensures a high degree of reliability as well as superior quality when compared with other video meeting solutions. The special lenses produce virtual vectoring ; cameras must capture multiple angles to track, pan, zoom, as well as power the technology that makes realistic eye contact and inclusion of non-verbal cues possible in a remote meeting setting.

Teliris also offers a wide variety of options to further enhance its base collaborative telepresence experience. From telepresence system interoperability, connectivity options, and advanced immersive collaboration tools – Teliris’ offering is second-to-none amongst telepresence system providers.

Telepresence technology provides the most immersive audio/video conferencing solutions for both one-to-one and many-to-many meetings. There is nothing else on the market that provides the detail, immediacy and immersive collaborative experience to compare with telepresence solutions.

Teliris recognizes that a truly immersive experience requires the capacity to provide total and equal access to all information being utilized or referenced in the meeting environment. The result of this is the most extensive suite of immersive collaboration products available in the telepresence marketplace. Teliris’ customers are enabled via these tools to bring human interaction beyond what is generally possible in the audio and video domain, facilitating the heightened human interaction experience that its customers depends upon.

In short, telepresence technology represents the next generation of virtual meeting solutions. The benefits are many (from cost reduction, environmental and time resource standpoints); telepresence by Teliris takes the dynamism of human interaction to a whole new level.

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Analista simulation modeling software was able to determine what was needed to maintain standards and determine the resourcing requirements in putting a new process in place. Stannic, a division of the Standard Bank Group was involved in a repositioning exercise. The plan would result in sales staff becoming more mobile, using new technology rather than branch premises as their base and it was necessary to determine whether the proposed processes would work and what resources would be needed to maintain high customer service levels.
Stannic used a flowcharting system called Cool Biz to capture process flow and corresponding information and a Systems Modelling Corporation’s BP$im®, simulation software for mapping and analyzing business processes ensuring that the proposed changes would have the desired effect of improving customer service in a more cost effective manner. Read more on Simulation Modelling Success Stories.

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Are you looking for a company who can take care of you printer repairs? Cape Town based Mouse House IT understand the frustration of dealing with broken printers.

We offer a personalised service to our clients by sending out qualified technicians to your office to identify the printer problem. We deal with all types of printers (ink jets, laser printers and dot matrix printers) and can fix any kind of problem whether it be related to paper jams or the restoration of multifunctional printers.

Whatever your printer needs, we are the dedicated Cape Town printer repairs company you can rely on.

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Your computers and your Information Technology IT systems can be the most essential assets in your corporation. It is essential for any corporation to have a fully functioning IT system in order to ensure the efficiency of that corporation. Of course, this will involve a complex set of operations and IT support However with professional IT Transport services, you can handle these problems easily.

When you mention about Computer transport, there are several things that it implicates. First of all, everything that has been completed up to that point and any corporation data that has been collected will have to be backed up in multiple copies. Getting a suitable back up is the most essential part of this procedure, as it will involve you to get your working order saved, in case something goes wrong.

Once the infrastructure is set up, then you will have to make sure that the transport procedure is completed as fast as possible. Mostly, the best times for IT Moving will be on night time hours, where work may not be as busy. Once the computer transport is completed, then the transport of your data must also be completed. In some cases, IT transport can also entail software transport, as well as hardware upgrades that are needed in order to make the system to become adjustable with the new physical location.

Of course, as you can see, it is very essential for you to have all the needful professional IT support and IT help at your disposal. IT transport will usually need more expertise, than a standard IT support personnel. Therefore, it can be a very good idea to make sure that you use the services of a professional IT Moving corporation to plan and to execute the computer transport and IT moving process.

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The Garmin 755T is another addition to Garmin’s reliable line of car GPS. There are some changes in the Garmin 755T Features. It includes several new features along with a host of valuable specs that do far more than simply get travelers from point A to point B. The most significant new feature is lifetime subscription-free traffic updates. With the introduction of the new nuvi 755T, Garmin has switched from Clear Channel’s TTN (Total Traffic Network) to Navteq traffic.

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