{"id":132,"date":"2006-04-10T19:20:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T23:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=132"},"modified":"2006-04-12T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T17:28:24","slug":"compression-breakthrough-or-pr-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/04\/10\/compression-breakthrough-or-pr-stunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Compression breakthrough or PR stunt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/globe\/articles\/2006\/04\/10\/firm_squeezes_films_into_a_download\/\">Firm squeezes films into a download &#8211; The Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Euclid Discoveries claims to have invented compression technology that is close to 4.4 times more efficient than MPEG-4. <em>(actually they claim 4.6&#8230; funny how the numbers in their press release don&#8217;t show it..)<\/em>  While object-based compression sounds cool, I have to wonder what the tradeoffs are in both quality and CPU requirements.  The company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eucliddiscoveries.com\/press_release.php\">admits in their press release<\/a> that their testing has centered on &#8220;talking head&#8221; type video. <em>(which is the easiest, aside from a still shot, for any compression algorithm to crunch)<\/em>  They&#8217;re also pretty blatant about their use of IP patents to attempt to monopolize this field of study.  Sickening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Another point of curiosity:  I wonder how long it&#8217;s going to take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euclidvision.com\/\">EuclidVision<\/a> to sue Euclid Discoveries over the product name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firm squeezes films into a download &#8211; The Boston Globe Euclid Discoveries claims to have invented compression technology that is close to 4.4 times more efficient than MPEG-4. (actually they claim 4.6&#8230; funny how the numbers in their press release &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/04\/10\/compression-breakthrough-or-pr-stunt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}