[LINK] Video compression system

[Johann Kruse]

Or it could be "Adam's Platform", which I think was some whiz-kid who
was going to revolutionise video around the year 2000-ish.

I think they were claiming to stream video at 14.4kbps, and were
giving "reak demos" but not letting anybody actually see what was
running the demos.



On 18/02/07, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au <rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> I think the company you're thinking of is Blaze International. Look
> through announcements for BLZ on the ASX Website.
>
> I can't comment on the technology...
>
> RC
>
> Stewart Fist wrote:
>
> >A few years ago (probably 5 or more) some guy in Melbourne, together with
> >his lawye,r were very actively promoting an invention that they claimed
> >could improve the compression of still and moving video images enormously.
> >
> >Their claims were quite absurd, in my opinion anyway.  But they gave
> >demonstrations that were obviously convincing, and no one ever exposed them
> >as fraudulent
> >
> >Kodak and a few other major companies looked at the hardware demonstration
> >(but were never given a real look at the technology) and decided against
> >investing.  But all sorts of people got in touch with me at that time asking
> >if they should invest in the company/invention.  It raised a lot of
> >investment interest at the time.
> >
> >I've lost my files on this, and was just casually wondering if anyone
> >remembers the details (names, etc), and knows what happened in the wash-out.
> >I think a couple of million dollars of investment money was involved.
> >
> >I seem to remember that they took the 'invention' to the USA.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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