11 pounds per day? Good lord lol That's so much...

I believe he meant like an old CD player, if you hit it it would hang for a second or two then start playing. Not skip as in skip song, skip as in hang for a few seconds.

The XBox 360 and PS3 have 512MB of Ram.

I don't think it's that, it's people looking at the other people on the screen. Which, since it is below the camera, it looks like you're not looking at the other people, because the video shows your eyes going to the video of the other person.