Abstract: An apparatus and method of acquiring video data from a source, having a source transmission going to a home base computer, a remote computer or image/audio receiving device. The home base computer receiving, compressing, converting the acquired data from a video format to a digital image format, transmitting the data to a remote system in real time, querying a consulting physician, the consulting physician reviewing the real time data and communicating back to the home base computer via a voice conversation. The home base computer storing and archiving data. The home base computer having the capability of transmitting the video signal from medical imaging devices at their native resolutions using real time, instantaneously, compressing and transmitting over Internet protocol, IP, interfaces at diagnostic quality or near diagnostic quality. The home system transmitting a video stream in real time as well as a real time audio stream.