Vialta BM 80

Vialta fails out of the box - test before sending to grandma

WARNING - test BOTH Beamers before sending one to Grandma. I ordered the dual set and BOTH Beamers are defective. Plug them in and NOTHING, no image. I get a dial tone but absolutely no "Beamer is now ready" message, just a blank screen (yes I plugged...

not worth the money

My daughter and son in law bought the Vialta, and then I bought one. My son in laws family lives in England and for a very short time, they all worked. The quality was poor and the connection would cut out. Now, nothing works, none of the the products...

GARBAGE

This video phone is the biggest garbage in the world. I bought one it is a waste of money. Video quality is horrible and cheap!! U will not be happy with this. I also have a motorola OJO video phone. That is much better than this. If your gonna get a...

Defective out of the box

I bought the "2 fer the price of 1" units. 1 for me, 1 for my folks in New England so they can see my daughter via the video phone. Seems like a good deal, right? The 2 pairs arrived to me in the Midwest. I kept one and shipped the other to New...

Costly repair

I bought two units of the beamer and sent one to my family. Turn out one unit is defective - something wrong with the camera. If I send it back to Vialta for repair, they charge me close to $100 + shipping. I think this is a ridiculous amount, as it...

They call this video

Simply doesn't work. Tried on number phone line connections. Definitely not video - at best can use for a snapshot of the person on the other end.

Vialta's Beamer Videophone - Great Product!

I received the Beamer as a Valentine's Day present from my boyfriend, who has been working in Europe for the last year and it does a great job of bridging the distance between us. The thing I liked most about the Beamer is that it's incredibly easy to...

Pleasure to see relatives, but need use right phone company

My parents-in-law lives in Beijing and we are in US. At first the beamer does not work - not able to establish a connection. Evetually the technical support of Beamer tried to use some other phone services and was able to find one that works. It is a...

Great Fun

My daughter and my one and only grandson live half way across the US from me so she came up with the idea of buying the Beamers. While the picture is small and not the quality of a video, it is fun to be able to see each other. This way, I get to...

Awesome - working across countries (USA-GERMANY)

Bought this product before Christmas 2002, took it overseas to install two systems there, got one in addition here. Both my mother (67years) and my mother in law (72years) love it. Easy to use (just let them press the button for establishing the...