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Screens Are Cameras
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Whenever a character talks to another over a Video Phone, each is able to see the other party on his monitor, but no camera of any sort is shown. Both parties will look directly at the screen showing their conversation partner on the other end, but neither party will appear to be breaking eye contact with their partner by doing so. This suggests that the actual screen one is looking at (or something directly behind it) is also recording one's own end of a conversation, which is viewable on their partner's monitor. This trope can be exaggerated by displaying the characters actually holding the device he is using to chat (as seen in the image above). This would require a non-existent third person camera to be setup In-Universe. Closely related to Computer Equals Monitor. Sub-Trope of Hollywood Webcam. Becoming a Discredited Trope as video calls become commonplace and are no longer futuristic technology, so a typical viewer expects that video transmissions require a camera to capture the image. Examples |
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Linus Tech Tips: "Is Samsung Trying to Impress Me?? — Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 5G Early Look" talks about the titular phone having a camera hidden under the folding screen. Instead of using a "notch" or a "hole punch" to get the screen around the camera, it covers the camera with more screen. The catch is the circle over the camera has a pixel density much lower than the rest of the screen, and the camera sees some grid-like light artifacting with lights in the frame. | |
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The main characters of Totally Spies! communicate with their boss, Jerry, through a Comm Links device disguised as a makeup compact. In the field, the compact projects a tiny hologram of Jerry as a form of a 3D Video Phone, even though Jerry has only a computer screen on his end which doesn't contain any device to capture a hologram of himself, much less a camera. He only sees a 2D image of the girls on his screen, but somehow in one instance the hologram of Jerry actually ducks down as one of the girls begins to close the lid of the compact on him at the end of a call. | |
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The variation also occurs in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987). Krang in the Technodrome is talking to Shredder, who has a small handheld Comm Link. Krang has a huge wall-sized screen in front of him, yet his face fills the entire screen on Shredder's Comm Links. Meanwhile, on Krang's screen, Shredder is shown holding the communicator in his hand! | |
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Any of the screens in the Half-Life universe seem capable of this, particularly the Combine screens of Half-Life 2. | |
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Ghost in the Machine: The virtual killer is shown travelling through cyberspace, until he stops to observe his victims through a computer screen or similar interface as if it were a glass window. | |
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Austin Powers: Dr. Evil tends to do this a lot. He has typical villain ultimatums with various world leaders through closed circuit televisions, yet there are no cameras that would allow him to see anything. | |
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1408 averts the trope; the cam is visible when the main character starts a video chat. | |
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Five Nights at Freddy's 2: You can brighten up rooms with your flashlight through your monitor. | |
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Taken to somewhat silly extremes in The Big Bang Theory, in which everyone uses Skype. People on screen will turn their heads to look at the person they are addressing, which means on their end they would be looking at the wall. | |
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In just about every video chat scene in Melody, both participants are making perfect eye contact. | |
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The members of the Think Tank in the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Old World Blues each have three mounted screens displaying their eyes and mouth separately and are capable of seeing through their "eye screens". | |
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The Telescreens in Nineteen Eighty-Four receive and transmit simultaneously and are a big part of how Big Brother watches the people of Oceania. As long as people stay within the field of vision which the telescreens command, they can be seen as well as heard. Even the Thought Police secretly recording the protagonists is done by a telescreen hidden behind a picture on the wall, rather than a smaller hidden camera. | |
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The Venture Brothers: The most obvious example is the two-way wrist communicator watches worn by the Ventures; they have nothing that looks like a camera, but at least they tend to display faces at a believable angle and distance. Exploited in "The Lepidopterists". The Monarch contacts Jonas Venture, Jr. by video screen to announce that he is attacking in his flying cocoon. Jonas shoots the cocoon with a death ray, and it is destroyed on the screen. It turns out that the Monarch is actually sitting on a soundstage in front of a TV camera, and the destroyed cocoon is a miniature on a string. The Monarch has installed a backdoor into Jonas's communication system so that he can use the attempt on his life as a bureaucratic loophole. |
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Star Trek's viewscreens, in all the show's incarnations, seem to work this way. In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Ronald D. Moore hatches a plan to replace the tired old viewscreens with a "holocommunicator". This was eventually deemed a failure by the showrunners, as it was glaringly obvious that the 'effect' was two actors in a room — Trek holograms have always been cleaner than Star Wars holograms, so Hologram Projection Imperfections wouldn't be keeping in canon. They even tried surrounding the holographic actor in blue light (so as to appear to be transmitting from a different room), but the actor confusingly looks like a ghost(!). | |
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Lexx: 790's eyes and mouth are screens, cameras, and speakers. | |
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The variation often occurs in Kim Possible. Kim is sometimes shown to use the Kimmunicator to call Ron on a regular cell phone. However, the Kimmunicator will show Ron holding the phone up to his ear. | |
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The Fairly OddParents!: In "Information Stupor Highway", Crocker uses a spyware program to see what's happening in Timmy Turner's room. How does the program do it? By filming the room through the monitor of Timmy's computer. | |
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Portal 2: Wheatley appears to be able to see through several of the video screens dotting various parts of the facility. In fact, there are a couple of parts where he reacts in pain to any of them being damaged. He later becomes jumpy whenever a flying cube almost hits them. | |
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Spider-Man: The earliest versions of the Spider-Slayer robots work this way. The robots would seem to have no technological need to project the face of whoever remotely controls them onto a TV screen mounted on the robot's "head", but that's exactly what they do. | |
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Danny Phantom: Danny videochats with Sam and Tucker with no visible webcam. | |
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Bakugan: Dan and his friends chat over the Internet and no webcam is ever seen. | |
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Gemini: Heroes Reborn have the introduction of the main villain, Trevor Mason, appearing on a massive monitor screen to the heroine Cassandra, where it's clear he's seeing her every move. | |
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Journey into Space: In Journey to the Moon/Operation Luna, this seems to be the case with the televiewer of the Luna. | |
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My Life as a Teenage Robot: A television extends out of Jenny's chest that Mrs. Wakeman communicates to her with and can see through. | |
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Firefly: This is strangely both played straight and averted nearly every time that video communication is used. Every other ship besides Serenity seems to have a dual camera/screen, but the heroes have to stare into a little camera lens when they speak. The effects department apparently thought the trope was being played straight because they had to be told, repeatedly, not to add a button beep/touch tone when Mal brushed dust off the camera lens with his thumb during one scene. | |
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In The Save-Ums!, the Adventure Screen acts like this between the Save-Ums and whomever is calling them. Interestingly, in the first episode, Winston is shown using a telephone to talk to the Save-Ums. However, this does not occur in any subsequent episode. | |
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