Featuring a three-dimensional view, iChat AV 3 for Tiger practically puts your colleagues in the room with you, making it easier to follow the conversation. View their faces reflected into space, just as if they were sitting around a conference-room table.

Nicer to Meet You

It's an organized visual arrangement that facilitates communication and keeps your Desktop neat. Make your multi-way video conference full screen and instantly turn your office into a video conference room. Tiger iChat AV brings multi-way video and audio conferencing directly to your Desktop with stunning, true-to-life picture and crystal-clear conversation.

Since iChat video conferencing is completely integrated into your iChat buddy list, initiating a video conference is straightforward and easy. Just click the meeting attendees on your buddy list and each colleague steps into your virtual office.

Clearly Advanced

Tiger takes the high-quality video capabilities of iChat to the next level with H.264. Producing higher resolution than that of competing video conferencing solutions, the new H.264 video codec, also known as MPEG-4 Part 10, is built right into Tiger and iChat. With its advanced video compression techniques, H.264 delivers a sharper picture and improved color accuracy. And H.264 intelligently scales to available bandwidth and hardware for improved overall performance.

Now Hear This

iChat for Tiger allows you to participate in audio conferences with up to 10 participants. High-quality audio compression techniques ensure crystal-clear conversations while full-duplex sound lets everyone speak naturally. Watch as well as listen using participants' personal sound-level meters. They're a handy visual cue to let you know who's speaking, so people don't have to announce themselves.

Unlike dedicated telephone systems, iChat eliminates the need for complex dialing instructions and automated attendants. Creating or joining a multi-person audio conference is as simple as clicking a button in your iChat buddy list. You may never crowd around a speakerphone again.

Your Serve

iChat also supports the new iChat Server available as part of Mac OS X Tiger Server, allowing your company to deploy and run your own private, secure IM server. Protect your company's internal communications by defining your own namespace while ensuring security through SSL encryption. iChat Server works with the iChat client in Mac OS X Tiger as well as with popular open source clients available for Windows, Linux, even PDAs.

IM Me

Of course, iChat is also a versatile instant text messaging application, supporting AOL Instant Messenger and Jabber Instant Messenger clients. Icons and thought bubbles make it fun to see who's saying what, and you can transmit any kind of file - from a web address to a photo - by simply dragging it into your chat. Pictures display right in the message window, web links open with a click. In short, iChat is still the best way to IM.

Child's Play

On iChat at home, enforce your "no talking to strangers" rule with built-in controls that allow you to decide who your children can chat with online. Approve the buddies you trust and iChat blocks all attempts to send and receive IMs with anyone else. iChat also automatically hides or displays online status so that only buddies approved by you will be able to see if your kids are online.