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DVD quality video over the internet, Bestfrontseat.com

Posted by Sachin Garg on 6th March 2006 | Permanent Link

Here is what the press release says:

IP Media Services, Even Technologies and NTT Communications have partnered to deliver the most advanced media delivery solution to date. Using video compression solutions from Even Technologies, Bestfrontseat.com will be able to provide live full screen, visual DVD quality video over the internet to homes anywhere in the world. The website is backed by IP Media Services’ specialized database for control and delivery of the compressed video and is delivered over NTT Communications’ worldwide SCD network.

Due to launch in March, 2006, Bestfrontseat.com is currently operated as a demonstration website with expert solutions for content distribution, encryption and databases provided by IP Media Services. Bestfrontseat.com has also developed sophisticated talking browsers and programmable key-press navigation tools designed to assist partially-sighted visitors in finding and viewing the latest videos in full screen, DVD quality. The market for these new services is estimated by Informa to be US$10 billion by 2007.

This new global television application is made possible by Even Technologies’ PSI_VTM video compression. Using this advanced compression solution, Bestfrontseat.com can deliver high quality, full screen videos over the NTT network for content anytime, anywhere.

I got a chance to preview one of their demo servers back in October 2005 when Steve John, CEO IP Media Services left a comment at a story here at c10n. Although things were a bit flaky back then (as can be expected from any still-under-development system), I must admit that the video quality was impressive, even on my modest connection.

There was another story “Image compression Snake Oil” done at c10n back in June 2005. It raised serious doubts regarding validity of claims made by few companies. The companies discussed there included Even Technologies, Let it Wave, ABO Image compression (MatrixView), and StuffIt (Jpeg recompression).

There never were any doubts regarding StuffIt as their technology is easily available with their desktop product. Someone from LetItWave dropped by and clarified some of the doubts surrounding their technology (check the comments at the above story). And with this new service, Even Technologies also seems to be having something real. But, there was another recent story on MatrixView which only added to their existing bad reputation.

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