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.

Comments

Re:Not by a long shot

[gmhowell]

Poor writing by the author. It's the latest internet scam. Not the last.

Re:Great!

[Unknown Bovine Group]

It seems to me that with the absurdly powerful processors that can be purchased sub $500 now, equally complicated compression algorithms could be used to trade processor work for file size. I remember seeing work on fractal encoding and the like. That was done for still images, but if processors were now fast enough to decode them at 30 fps, or even better if those algorithms could be applied over frames AND frame delta over time, it could be a possibility.

And a great opportunity for chip and pc makers to push the latest and greatest processors....

No doubt they use a lossy compression scheme

[Blue Neon Head]

Much like this one ...

http://lzip.sourceforge.net/

:-)