Low-res Video to Get Upgrade
September 1st, 2006
Everybody loves video on the Internet - sites such as YouTube have shown the power of video, particularly in a network of people who are fed up with traditional media. However, it’s bandwidth-hungry, and low-quality webcams are the norm still. This means watching video on your PC is slow if it’s high-quality - a DVD quality BitTorrent can take days to download - and makes you feel sick if it’s fast but low-quality.
MotionDSP have created a new technology that tries to improve low-quality video by working out information that is ‘lost’ through aliasing of pixels. It’s impressive stuff, originally developed for the military. Now it is likely to find a home on the numerous video sites that are changing the way we all think think about film and video.
The demos look pretty good, but you can still tell there is something low quality about them - the blurred nature of the refined video makes me feel like I’ve lost my reading glasses and after a while, I think I’d feel a bit ill.
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