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Full-Screen Video Over 28.8k: The Claims Continue

Posted by timothy on from the well-maybe-a-monkey's-cousin-at-least dept.

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.

6 of 459 comments (clear)

  1. Re:If you believe that... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, if you only count the meaningful content, and not all the crap, then yes, you can...

  2. Multicasting by CrusadeR · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Been implemented by Microsoft and Real already, the problem is that most ISPs don't support it:

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/s erve/multiwp.asp

    http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/doc/4m ulti.htm

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  3. Lisa! by condour75 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

  4. Re:Proprietary 'secret' Technologies by Nodatadj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or Shooting Fish

  5. unmetered local calls by kiwipeso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    New Zealand and Australia both have unmetered local calls, even the outback has unmetered local calls.
    I'm getting cable next week to get around the dual processor dial up error on OS X though.

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  6. Re:Lets do the math... by Sloppy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    they would have to get a compression rate of 99.93% (for the 24 frames).

    It just doesn't add up.

    You can get 99.6% (non-lossy!) compression by running stuff through the legendary 16:1 compressor twice. Do it a third time, and it's 99.97%. See? There's a way.

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