Skype and Comcast to Offer TV Video Chats

Skyping on a laptop is so 2010

Soon, you could be able to watch your favorite shows with a friend even if they're across the country. Thanks to a “strategic partnership” between Comcast and Skype, the cable company’s subscribers will soon be able to video chat from their TV sets, reports the New York Times.

Comcast said that it would conduct a trial of the new Skype-on-TV service this year and plans to make it widely available to customers sometime in 2012, although the company hasn’t released pricing details.

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