More on Blaze and PIXe
Posted by Mark Nelson on 31st October 2005 | Permanent Link
Because of the proprietary nature of their algorithm, it’s difficult to know whether Blaze really has the goods or not. They’ve managed to ink a deal with to deliver video to Russian handsets, but one has to wonder how much scrutiny the technology got in that effort.
You’ve seen this posted earlier on this site, but in essence their secret sauce is described as:
The PIXe compression technology uses an optical principle called “short-range apparent motion”, which eliminates data from an image while fooling the eye into believing that nothing is missing. When used with a secondary compression codec (compressor-decompressor) such as MPEG-4, files can be reduced in size by as much as 90 per cent.
That’s not much in the way of information - any video compressor worth its salt can reduce a file by 90%. The key question is how much of a boost you get beyond standard compression, and at what expense in quality.