AOL has released the beta version of AV video chat basing on Adobe Flash and what is interesting there is no need to register or sign in for that.

Besides, 4 people can take part in the chat at the same time. The service was announced to be free in addition to that.  Every user receives the individual chat link from AOL recourse and then can just send the message to the person he wants to have a talk with. This way instant video conference is organized. The possibility to have a talk with 4 persons make the chat unique. The initiator is entitled to invite people and on the contrary put them away from the chat. With support of video and audio the service also provides you additionally with text chat in case you need to exchange some written data, for instance, links and etc.

In order to have a video chat now, the person should have an account in some service such as MSN, Skype, Yahoo, Apple’s iChat, AIM or some other. You have to check also that the person you need have the account in the same service but with AOL AV chat all this problems just disappear. The developers of the software want to help users to make the online communication easier.

AOL AV runs on Adobe Flash 10.3, consequently it supports young browsers (Mozilla Firefox 3.0 at least, Internet Explorer 7+, Safari5, Chrome9+). Still big category of users will not be able to use the service. This refers for the most part to the owners of iOS devices that do not run Flash.
It is easy to start the chat. The one needs to copy the link and send to the other party.