Group Video Chat with Skype 5!

Skype - the popular video calling software from Estonia is now few steps away from releasing group video calling feature. The company released the beta version of the software today for early adopters to test.If you want to give it a try, you can get your beta #-Link-Snipped-#.

The beta software supports group video chat for up to 4 users and each user can listen to what others are talking. Currently the group video calling feature is only available on the Windows version (Windows 2000 is not supported) of the software. Sounds great, right?

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Multiple Video Conferencing on Skype 5

But the best things in life aren't always free! The group chat feature will be a premium feature and those who want to enable it will have to pay some fee. The pricing details haven't been disclosed by the company yet. Its important to note that Skype's competitor on Mac, iChat has group video chat feature for quite some time now - and for free!

The 5.0.0.105 version has following features:-

<strong></strong>* Up to 5-way group video call
* Redesigned calling experience
* Improved video snapshots gallery
* Improved browser plugins performance on some websites.
* Reduced false positives on browser plugin phone number recognition.

The question is, would you pay to Skype to use the group calling feature? Are there any 'free' alternatives that support multi-video conferencing on Windows platform? If yes, let us know through comments.