EuclidVision compresses 14 full length movies on a single CD-ROM?

Posted By: Vikas Shekhawat | Apr 12 2006

EuclidVision system is a new video-compression technology invented by Euclid Discoveries that can compress movies to such an extent that a standard CD-ROM could be able to store at least 14 full length movies.

Moving ahead of the current compression technologies like MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, EuclidVision system can compress digital images using 'object-based compression' which identifies individual objects and compress them. Euclid is billing the concept mainly for videoconferencing over telephone lines with limited bandwidth. Using the system a 25-megabyte conference video was compressed to just 1,800 bytes.

While the EuclidVision system will prove highly beneficial for some, there are a few who're skeptical about it. It'll definitely become easy for companies to shrink and distribute films over the Internet. But, on the other hand, it'll give fillip to movie piracy.

Via: cdfreaks