[LINK] Video compression system

[Adam Todd]

At 10:55 AM 18/02/2007, you 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.

The guy is in Sydney, and live sin Chatswood.  Turns out we went to the 
same school, he was a couple of years behind me and apparently knows a lot 
about me and the things I was doing in IT.

I can only say he's a smart kid.

>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.

He didn't get any investment as I knew.  I haven't spoken to him for a 
while.  But I have a directory of info somewhere.

>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.

Not that I know of.

>I seem to remember that they took the 'invention' to the USA.

Yes he was looking at that.