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High-definition TV over low-cost Internet

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rabit9/25/2011 6:44:59 pm PDT

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.