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Full-Screen Video Over 28.8k: The Claims Continue
gwernol writes "Over at Screen Daily they are claiming that an Australian company has demonstrated a high quality, full-screen video-on-demand service that is delivered over a 28.8k modem. They claim this will 'eliminate the need for broadband.' If this is true, then they'll change the world. Of course, the basic technology has been around for a while, see this article from 1998 or this one from earlier this year. I remain extremely sceptical. If this is real, why won't they allow proper independent testing? But it is interesting that they're getting funding. Could this be the last great Internet scam?"
Several readers also pointed out this brief report at imdb.com as well. We've mentioned this before, but the news here is the reportedly successful demo. It would be a lot easier to swallow if he'd let people test it independently, but video-over-28.8 sure is tantalizing.
Is the Internet going away and nobody told me? Somehow I doubt that anything happening today will be the _last_ great Internet scam.
If it ain't a Model M, it's a piece of crap.
Yes, and I am able to compress all of Slashdot down to 10 bytes.
Bush's education improvements were
You click on download, the viewer launches, and the status bar reads "Buffering..." for eight hours, then the full-screen video plays in full detail. It's amazing!
http://lzip.sourceforge.net/
I hope this isn't another Pixelon...
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Yes sir, full screen video over a 28k connection.
So what am I seeing? It looks rather blank.
Well sir, that's a white cow in a snow field. It just scared out some snow hares.
Over 28k you say? Where do I sign?
A man without a God is like a fish without a bicycle.
As long as i can put The Matrix at dvd quality on a floppy disk.
For all we know the machine had a 802.11b wireless card and was receiving multiple transmissions of the datastream. (Assuming any level of auditing was actualy done to verify that any data was over the 28.8 connection.)
Perhaps a GPS beacon as well.
Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
Remember the DOS trojan that was floating around about 8 or 9 years ago that claimed to be fractal compression program with amazing results? It could compress a 2 megabyte file down to a few hundred bytes. How did it achieve these amazing results? Deleting the file and filling the rest with junk. :-)
umm, how is this any different than having a 24/7 dialup connection (or at least close). PPP on demand would do just about the same thing as well.
Broadband is great b/c I don't have to wait 5 mins while my porn comes up, I don't have to wait 15 hours for my whatever.tar.gz to download, and I certainly don't have to worry about my roommate stealing all the bandwith downloading MP3s.
Even if 28.8kbps can support full motion video you can't do much else while it is downloading.
Yeah, the worst thing about VCD is how the MPEG artifacts obscure genitalia in those Japanese movies.
"I hope they have made the next quantum leap in compression. I doubt it, but I hope."
Recall that a "quantum leap" is by definition the smallest possible leap. The next quantum leap in compression will be just compressing one more bit. Why hope for that?
God is real unless declared integer
Damn right we will..
I'm already leaning towards banning it because it enables faster dissemination of copyright materials. We may have missed the chance to outlaw the internet as a whole, but we will definately get each and every individual new peice as it comes up.
Do you people not understand that we own you.
All your ass are belong to us.
Sen. Hon. Richard K R Alston
Australian Federal Minister for Communications, Information Technology
...they just didnt say how MANY 28.8 modems it was travelling over ;-)