![]() ![]() And that could be good news for Hollywood, “which launched new services last week to sell downloadable copies of recent films. ![]() “But 50 megabytes would take less than five minutes.”Įuclid Discoveries has filed 15 US patents on its compression system and is in discussions with a number of companies to bring it to market, says the story. Online movie ‘pirates’ will be delighted by a new technology able to, “shrink a video so small that it becomes easy to distribute films over the Internet,” as the Boston Globe describes it.Įuclid Discoveries’ EuclidVision uses “object-based compression” to identify individual objects shown in a video and then, “calculates the optimum level of compression for each of them,” says the story.Ī full-length movie needing 700 Mb of storage, “when compressed using MPEG-4 would use just 50 megabytes when compressed with EuclidVision”.įourteen movies could fit on a standard CD and it would take an hour for someone with a 1.5 megabit-per-second broadband connection to download a 700-megabyte file, says the Boston Globe.
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