New York Times: The Return of the Videophone (Again)  | Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

A new company, telyHD thinks it can change that equation, not only by moving video chats from the PC to the TV room, but also by offering a set of enhanced features to its product typically only possible with a computer.

The $249 retail telyHD unit (available at telyhd.com, Amazon and other retailers) sits comfortably on top of an HDTV and uses the Skype service to make video calls. Once you connect the unit via an HDMI cable and sign in to Skype, your entire Skype address book is visible. Read More+

New York Times: Digital Devices for Luddites  | Thursday, March 8th, 2012

The telyHD, which sells for about $250, allows you to make Skype calls from your TV. The device, a small camera and microphone, sits on top of your television. It’s fantastically simple to set up and use: you just plug in two cables, and enter your Skype user name and password on the TV screen using the device’s remote. And then begin your call.  Read More+

Wired: Put Some Clothes On: Video Calling Just Got Easier  | Monday, March 5th, 2012

Cisco’s ill-fated Umi had the right idea: a plug-and-play webcam for your TV that fulfills the Jetsonian promise of bringing faraway friends and family members into your living room — and you into theirs.

Right idea, wrong execution. The Umi required pricey hardware ($600) and locked buyers into Cisco’s proprietary video-chat service, charging them $25 per month for the privilege. Jetsonian? More like Draconian.

Tely Labs gets it right with the TelyHD, an equally high-def but more-reasonably priced webcam that’s blissfully easy to use and tied to everybody’s favorite free video-calling service, Skype. Read More+

TWICE: TelyHD Brings Skype Video Calling To The Big Screen  | Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Those who may have been intrigued by news of Skype video calling features being added to some of the latest advanced HDTVs can relax in the knowledge that they can now get that Jetsons experience today without buying a whole new set.

Privately held Tely Labs, based in Menlo Park, Calif., is selling a product it calls TelyHD that offers as close to a plug-and-play experience as you are likely to find in an aftermarket TV video cam. What’s more, it places all of the Skype connectivity software and circuitry in the device, so it’s not necessary to buy an expensive new flat-panel TV with Skype built in. Read More+

USA Today, Ed Baig: TelyHD puts video calls on TV at a lower price  | Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Enter Silicon Valley newcomer Tely Labs. With its compact TelyHD Skype-compatible set-top box that recently went on sale, the company believes it can succeed where others have failed. Read More+

Digits Live Show: Mossberg: Skype Moves from Laptop to TV Screen  | Thursday, January 26th, 2012

On today’s Digits: TelyHD allows entire families to Skype using the television, Walt Mossberg reports. Plus: Megaupload executives are granted bail; AT&T loses out to Verizon in customer race; Netflix tries to find its footing; the NFL says “ok” to tweeting by players during the Pro Bowl; start-up Codeacademy introduces a new program for would-be code jockeys and a site to help soothe the sting of break ups. Read More+

Real Bonding With Family Around the TV Via Skype  | Thursday, January 26th, 2012

As you read these words, millions of people are conducting video chats using the popular Skype service, now owned by Microsoft. Most of these calls are low-resolution encounters between two individuals, conducted over personal computers.

This week, I tested a new device that aims to transform Skype video chats into room-size experiences, involving whole families or groups of friends on each end—seeing each other, chatting and sharing photos in high definition using TVs. It’s called telyHD, and comes from a small Silicon Valley start-up called Tely Labs. In my tests, it worked well. Read More+

Skype Video Turns Chat Into Room Size Experience  | Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Walt Mossberg tests a new device that aims to transform Skype video chats into room-sized experiences . telyHD lets families or groups of friends video chat using TVs instead of computers. Read more+

Skype and Tely Labs deliver Tegra 2-powered Android videochat to your HDTV  | Friday, January 20th, 2012

Video calling is leaving the PC behind and increasingly looking for a home in people’s living rooms. Tely Labs is just the latest company to hop on that trend, but it’s scored a powerful partner in Skype. The TelyHD TV Phone system doesn’t look too dissimilar from a Kinect, but underneath its glossy plastic shell is an HD webcam and a Tegra 2 pushing a customized version of Android. The company promises other apps are in the works, but the star of the show is clearly Skype, which hopes to deliver HD-quality video calls wherever there’s a TV (or a phone, or a computer). Read More+

Walt Mossberg on TelyHD: Works Quite Well  | Monday, January 16th, 2012

“TelyHD is not a web cam,” Walt Mossberg said right off the bat.  The personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal said the video conferencing device that works with Skype does much more than that — and it does it all quite well. Read More+