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KT-Tech Challenges Nancy and MPEG-4 for Wireless Video

Posted by timothy on from the rise-of-the-pants-cams dept.

Robert Gallagher writes: "Last week, at http://www.kttech.com/comp.html, KT-Tech released a demo of their video codec running at 32 Kbps. According to the web page and discussion on comp.compression, this codec is 'symmetric,' meaning encoding is just as fast as decoding, and that both can be done in software and in real-time. While Nancy is getting good press for its light decoding cost, KT-Tech is apparently trying to get into the two-way wireless communication market. One question to ponder: Would we really want cameras on our cell-phones?"

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  1. So much for..... by Baalam · · Score: 5, Funny

    answering the cell phone while visiting the restroom...

  2. pr0n by jargoone · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would we really want cameras on our cell-phones?

    Kinda brings a new meaning to the term phone sex doesn't it?

  3. Neat. by glowingspleen · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's cool...we really needed another level of distraction for idiots that use cell phones in the car! Beep beep.

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  4. No common sense at k-tech by SanLouBlues · · Score: 5, Funny

    A look at k-tech's still image compression shows them touting the advantages of their image format over jpegs. With jpegs of what both formats look like. They aren't the best marketers.