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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. Symetric ? by kigrwik · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > "Symmetric" means that encoding the video is as fast as decoding.

    Well, it *could* also mean that decoding is as slow as encoding :)

    Besides, do we really need yet another proprietary video codec ?
    If it's effective, it won't take long for it to migrate to webcasting, movie previews, etc...
    See how often QuickTime is used, and how compatible it is w/ Linux, won't we risk the same thing again ? and again ? and again ??

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  2. Every Cell Phone a Surveillance Camera by stankulp · · Score: 4, Insightful
    There is already a lot of anecdotal evidence that the proliferation of cell phones and the consequent ability of witnesses to contact police while a crime is in progress has been one of the primary reasons for the drop in crime in recent decades.

    With a video camera/cell phone, they could also be recording evidence to be used at trial.

    Violent public crime would become obsolete, and violent criminals would find it hard to remain free.

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