The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation instrument. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your puny business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing contraptions, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can string up with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for petite or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you truly need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting begin times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, however a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees inject a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispelled by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or picture or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard implement, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Ultimately, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve most likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasurable. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation device. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing implements, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation contraption. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing devices, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday contest with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can dangle with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial completes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for petite or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you indeed need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting begin times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, tho’ a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees inject a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispelled by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or photo or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard contraption, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Eventually, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve very likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasurable. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation implement. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing implements, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday rival with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation instrument. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing implements, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can suspend with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for puny or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you truly need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting commence times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, however a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees come in a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dissipated by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or pic or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard instrument, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Ultimately, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve very likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasant. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation device. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing implements, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation implement. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing instruments, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can dangle with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for puny or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you truly need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting commence times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, tho’ a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees come in a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispersed by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or photo or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard implement, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Eventually, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve most likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasurable. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation implement. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing implements, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday contest with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation contraption. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing contraptions, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can suspend with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for puny or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you truly need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting begin times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, tho’ a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees come in a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispersed by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or pic or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard device, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Ultimately, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve very likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasant. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation device. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your puny business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing instruments, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation contraption. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing contraptions, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday contest with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can drape with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for petite or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you truly need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting embark times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, however a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees inject a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispersed by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or picture or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard instrument, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Eventually, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve very likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasant. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation implement. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing instruments, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday contest with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation device. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing devices, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday contest with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can suspend with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial completes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for petite or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you truly need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting commence times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, tho’ a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees inject a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispersed by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or picture or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard implement, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Ultimately, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve very likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasurable. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation instrument. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your puny business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing instruments, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday contest with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation device. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing instruments, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can string up with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for puny or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you indeed need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting commence times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, however a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees come in a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispersed by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or photo or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard instrument, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Ultimately, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve very likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasant. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation instrument. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your puny business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing instruments, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday rival with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation instrument. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your puny business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing instruments, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can drape with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for petite or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you truly need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting embark times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, however a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees come in a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dissipated by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or photo or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard device, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Ultimately, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve very likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasant. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation instrument. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your puny business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing contraptions, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday rival with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation instrument. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your puny business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing implements, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday contest with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can suspend with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for petite or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you truly need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting commence times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, tho’ a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees inject a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispersed by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or photo or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard contraption, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Ultimately, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve very likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasant. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation instrument. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing instruments, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday rival with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation instrument. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing instruments, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can string up with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for puny or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you indeed need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting embark times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, tho’ a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees come in a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispersed by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or picture or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard device, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Ultimately, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve most likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasurable. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation implement. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your puny business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing implements, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday contest with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation contraption. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing instruments, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can suspend with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for puny or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you indeed need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting begin times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, tho’ a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees inject a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispersed by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or picture or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard contraption, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Ultimately, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve very likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasurable. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation contraption. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing implements, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation device. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing devices, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can string up with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for puny or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you truly need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting begin times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, however a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees come in a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispersed by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or picture or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard device, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Eventually, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve most likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasurable. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation instrument. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your puny business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing contraptions, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday contest with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation implement. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing instruments, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday rival with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can suspend with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for puny or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you indeed need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting begin times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, however a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees inject a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dissipated by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or pic or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard implement, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Ultimately, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve most likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasant. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation implement. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing devices, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation contraption. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing devices, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday rival with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can drape with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial completes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for petite or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you indeed need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting begin times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, tho’ a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees come in a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dissipated by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or photo or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard implement, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Eventually, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve very likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasurable. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation contraption. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your puny business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing implements, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday contest with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for petite businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation device. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing devices, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday challenge with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can drape with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial completes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for petite or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you truly need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting begin times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, however a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees inject a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispelled by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or picture or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard device, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Ultimately, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve very likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasurable. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation implement. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing implements, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for petite businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday contest with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center Review

Bottom Line: Cisco’s WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they’re relatively expensive.

Juan Martinez is PCMag’s Senior Editor, Business. His work and commentary has been featured on ESPN.com, NBCNews.com, FoxBusiness.com, Entrepreneur, Reuters TV, Esquire.com, Publishers Weekly, ClickZ, ZDNet, TechRepublic, TechRadar, Content Marketing Institute, CRM Magazine and Direct Marketing News. He has a master’s degree in creative writing from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bard College. Prior to PCMag, Juan was the Senior Editor of TechRadar Pro, and a Technology Editor at CBS Interactive. He can be reached at [email protected]. Go after Juan on Twitter at @jrobertmartinez. More »

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The Best Movie Conferencing Software of two thousand seventeen

The Best Movie Conferencing Software of 2017

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we've tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation implement. However, if you're looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing contraptions, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that's very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you'll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday rival with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it's not ready for the major leagues just .

Bottom Line: GoToMeeting remains one of the easiest conferencing services to use, and the movie conferencing feature keeps the app relevant, especially as fresh users and products flood the market all the .

Bottom Line: Cisco's WebEx Meeting Center offers a generous free plan, and its paid plans suggest slew of features, but they're relatively expensive.

As more companies add headquarters around the US and the globe, business travel is one way to bring employees together to share ideas. But paying for airline flights, hotels, and meeting spaces is costly. And never mind getting everyone’s scheduled coordinated. One way to cut costs is to conduct meetings remotely by phone or by movie. But when meetings are not in person, it’s key that participants are focused and engaged.

Bring life to your meetings using a movie conferencing service. This way, the presenter is not just a voice on the phone but an on-screen presence who’s able to see and interact with other attendees, share presentations, and more. For collaborative meetings, the host can sketch out ideas on an online whiteboard and invite participants to join in. Some movie conferencing services let presenters pass control to another participant who can proceed the meeting without interruption. Others let hosts deny access to latecomers to further avoid disruption.

Our Editors’ Choice movie conferencing service is once again ClickMeeting , a sturdy product that makes movie meetings (almost) joy for your staff. Fresh to our roundup is Amazon Chime, a movie conferencing service that can hold its own with most in this class. However, because Amazon Chime is so fresh, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out and a few features that need to be added before it can drape with traditional powerhouses such as Cisco WebEx Meeting Center and Microsoft Skype for Business .

What Is Movie Conferencing?

Movie conferences are typically defined as real-time movie sessions inbetween two or more users that reside in two or more locations. While movie conferencing supports several endpoints communicating, the terms "movie call" and "movie talk" generally mean one-to-one.

Movie conferencing services tend to suggest more than just face-to-face interactions. Best-in-class movie conferencing services let users share their screens, remotely access one another’s desktops, talk via text, exchange files, communicate via digital whiteboards, and even broadcast conferences to large groups of passive viewers.

Movie Conferencing Package Pricing

As with all software services, pricing and packages are an significant consideration when it comes to movie conferencing. The prices quoted and the product descriptions below are typically for the lowest level of service per user per month. (For more pricing information, click through to the individual reviews.) All but one of the movie conferencing services we tested offers free trials (most for thirty days) and many don’t require a credit card on file, which means you don’t have to worry about being charged automatically when the trial finishes.

For example, join.me offers a free plan with limited features, which is good for petite or even single-employee companies. Many services are scalable depending on the number of hosts and attendees you need. We recommend attempting a few of our top-rated movie conferencing services before committing to a particular one; attempt out some of the features to figure out what you indeed need and what’s overkill.

Ease of Use and Meeting Features

Once you’ve found packages in your price range, the most significant consideration is ease of use. Obviously, if the user interface (UI) is difficult for you and your colleagues to navigate and use, then it’s going to cause delays in meeting begin times, which will frustrate everyone. For each review, we discuss the ease of signing up, creating a meeting, inviting participants, and setting up audio and movie controls. We also look at the user practice (UX) from the meeting invitees’ point of view, which can make or break a meeting.

We test each service’s prominent features but it’s up to you to determine whether or not you need dial-in numbers, voice-over-IP (VoIP), or both options for your audio, and whether or not you need movie calls in addition to screen sharing. Some services suggest both teleconferencing with dial-in numbers (local or toll-free) and VoIP calling, while some suggest just one or the other. A few suggest international dial-in numbers. Adobe Connect doesn’t suggest teleconferencing at all but can be integrated with a number of other services. Most suggest movie calls via webcam, tho’ a few don’t.

In all of these reviews, we hosted and joined meetings to test the practice of both registered and non-registered users. We outlined how effortless is to join a meeting, including whether or not a participant needs to download software before joining an online meeting (which could cause a delay). In this case, it’s significant to communicate with employees about hardware compatibility and preferred browser. Other services simply require that attendees inject a code to access the meeting.

Our reviews also cover the host’s admin features. The best services let you set up different types of meetings, such as a lecture-style meeting in which all participants are muted, or a discussion or Q&A mode in which presenters can mute and unmute participants as needed or let all participants speak. If you’ve ever been dispelled by the sound of someone typing or a barking dog in the background, then you’ll appreciate these controls. Other options include enabling and disabling webcams, locking latecomers out of a meeting, creating a waiting room while preparing for the meeting, and permitting break-out sessions.

For presentations, screen sharing is significant as are granular options such as the capability to share just one application (Microsoft PowerPoint, for example), document, or photo or share your entire desktop. Most of the movie conferencing services in this roundup also suggest a whiteboard instrument, which you can use to sketch out ideas or take notes during the meeting for everyone to see. You also need to consider what the participants are able to do, such as share their screen, enable their webcam, sketch on a collective whiteboard, and even take over the presentation. Think about how much actual collaboration you’d like in your meetings.

Other features we look at include the number of participants permitted on a call and the number of movie feeds permitted at the same time. The most generous is Adobe Connect, which is unlimited, but some suggest as few as four participants at a time. Consider how significant this is to your company. Most services let you record meetings and a few let you edit the recording right within the software. These recorded meetings can then be used for your records or as webinars for anyone who missed the meeting or for fresh employees.

Compatibility and Support

For the times when something goes wrong, you need solid support resources. The best movie conferencing services suggest phone, email, and talk support in addition to extensive online documentation. Active user communities are also a good resource to have at your disposition.

Eventually, you’ll want to check compatibility with browsers and system requirements. All of the services we looked at work on PCs, some work on Macs, and a few work with Linux. Most are broadly compatible with web browsers but you’ll need to upgrade to one of the newest versions.

You’ve most likely used a movie conferencing program at some point in your career and it’s likely the practice wasn’t the most pleasurable. However, you may be astonished at the extensive features that are available in these movie conferencing services to make remote meetings just a little less painful.

Featured Movie Conferencing Software Reviews:

RingCentral Office (for Business) Review

Bottom Line: RingCentral Office (for Business) is one of the best all-around office communications solutions we’ve tested. Combining voice over IP (VoIP) with a unified communications software client and.

ClickMeeting Review

Bottom Line: ClickMeeting is affordable, effortless to use, versatile, and our top pick for movie conferencing services for puny businesses.

Zoho Meeting Review

Bottom Line: Zoho Meeting is an ideal screen sharing and presentation device. However, if you’re looking for a more comprehensive movie conferencing service that has whiteboarding, recording, and social sh.

eVoice Review

Bottom Line: If you need virtual phone service in addition to conferencing features, then eVoice has everything your petite business needs.

Microsoft Skype for Business Review

Bottom Line: If you find yourself cobbling together web conferencing instruments, talk clients, and Skype to treat all your communication needs, then consider Microsoft Skype for Business to simplify your set.

join.me Review

Bottom Line: A top movie conferencing pick for puny businesses, join.me has a modern interface that’s very effortless to use and slew of features to enhance your online meetings.

Adobe Connect Review

Bottom Line: Adobe Connect is an easy-to-use movie conferencing service with generous features but you’ll need to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP) or a third-party dial-in service for audio.

Amazon Chime Review

Bottom Line: Amazon Chime is an app in progress. It has the potential to someday rival with the top-ranking movie conferencing services in the class. However, it’s not ready for the major leagues just .

GoToMeeting Review

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