To Zoom or not to Zoom

Digital conferencing was one of those things I hoped we would never have to embrace in the third age, but this is rapidly becoming the only way to set eyes on our friends and family. My first taste of a Zoom session was quite encouraging. But later episodes via both Scope and Zoom were tedious and tiring. The big problem is when the picture does not keep up with the sound. For those of us relying on lipreading, this makes it very hard work to follow the conversation. It seems that the main problem is either narrow bandwidth or poor signal.