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1 Henchman Ghazi-808  Sun, Sep 25, 2011 5:56:56pm

Interesting, but I gotta see it to believe it.

2 rabit  Sun, Sep 25, 2011 6:44:59pm

There is nothing in the article that tells what the technology actually is, and anyone who knows streaming knows a multitude of monsterous technological achievements need to happen before the claims these people are making could ever come true. And these are hurdles that billions of dollars over decades and millions of man hours have been spent trying to overcome. Why would I believe that a small 12 person team managed to solve all of them in two years?

Did they invent a new extremely low latency packet switching network that never ever loses packets and requires retransmission? Or did they invent a new video compression codec that manages high-def video over low baseline 64kB-128kB/sec (about 1/5th H.264)? Did they invent a new broadband delivery mechanism assuring every customer achieves at least 2x baseline to allow pre-buffering & immediate channel zapping that they claim? Of course, most likely answer is none of them and the claims read like Mr. Drori doesn't quite understand tech.

3 Bob Levin  Sun, Sep 25, 2011 6:58:08pm

The bookmarklet works very well.

re: #2 rabit

More likely, the author of the piece doesn't understand Mr. Drori. Israel is remarkably quick at turning ideas into patents into startups. The company will succeed or fail, or as in many cases, they will be bought out.

4 avanti  Sun, Sep 25, 2011 7:51:57pm

I was shocked to find my new Droid Bionix phone downloads twice as fast as my Comcast cable using 4G and I can send the video over a HDMI cable to my big screen at 1080p today. I don't see the technology that far away.

5 rabit  Sun, Sep 25, 2011 10:49:15pm

re: #3 Bob Levin

Maybe so, but after exploring their website a bit I was still not quite sure what they invented. I see so many companies come with vague claims and then you never hear about them again. My fave is Starbridge Systems. Claimed they were on the verge of releasing the most powerful desktop computer, about 12 years ago - and would be bigger than Microsoft. Then, what?

They really did have compelling tech but maybe a bit much too of that cockiness that blinds so many ambitious self-taught engineers to fundamental limitations - in their case, turning reconfigurable devices generally used for highly computation-heavy tasks like realtime video compression into self-reprogrammable general computing devices. It should *seem* to work, except for the fact that academia's been there, tried it, documented and published it.

That's not to say huge major leaps in tech like this can't come from tiny unknown companies, just that, sadly, it usually doesn't.

re: #4 avanti

4G should handle 1080p just fine but that's fairly trivial. What's unusual is claiming TV-like "channel zapping" with zero prebuffering. You don't that streaming from your local UPnP server over gigabit wires, let alone over the internet with typical latencies of 500ms-2s roundtrip, unless they're sending all the channels in the same stream (ala. DirecTV), which rules out the internet.

6 Bob Levin  Sun, Sep 25, 2011 11:20:20pm

re: #5 rabit

That's not to say huge major leaps in tech like this can't come from tiny unknown companies

That's the engine of Israel's economy. It's what they do.

7 RogueOne  Mon, Sep 26, 2011 6:06:48am

re: #4 avanti

I was shocked to find my new Droid Bionix phone downloads twice as fast as my Comcast cable using 4G and I can send the video over a HDMI cable to my big screen at 1080p today. I don't see the technology that far away.

Seriously? I can't imagine 4g being faster than my cable connection. I'm just outside the 4g area in Indy and it looks like it's going to be awhile before it's available where I live but now I'm more impatient than ever. I tether my laptop to my 3g phone because it's so much faster than the free wireless offered all over town. A connection in the middle of nowhere 2x as fast as 3g would make life pretty sweet.

8 RogueOne  Mon, Sep 26, 2011 6:14:01am

re: #7 RogueOne

I just ran a speed test. Verizon 4g is roughly 1/3 to 1/2 as fast as my comcast cable connection. 10mbps Vs. 25-30. That's not bad at all.


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