The Hindu Business Line : Hundred movies in one DVD?

WELL, the technology for packing one hundred movies in one DVD is not there yet, but a Singapore company, listed in Australia but doing development work in Chennai, is almost there.

MatrixView Ltd has developed a technology that can compress files some 34 times, without any loss of data in the compress-decompress process. The technology is useful everywhere, but its significant utility lies in areas that deal with a lot of images and large documents in medicine, film special effects and financial services.

The company calls the technology `Adaptive Binary Optimisation'. Unlike JPEG, which converts the data into frequencies and drops high frequencies to make the file small, ABO stacks up data of similar type for compression.

Therefore, with ABO, there is never any loss of data. At a press conference here on Thursday, officials of MatrixView said that hospitals would find the technology very useful. Banks can store large documents, such as property documents for home loans, in a central server.

Compression of 34 times, against JPEG's best of 9 times, is a big boon here because each frame in a film is about 12 million pixels (dots), there are 24 frame for each second of a movie that may run to, say, 90 minutes... MatrixView has netted one customer in India — the Puttapurthi Hospital in Whitefield, but is confident of many more sales going by the "immense interest" the product has evoked. The company is also "in engagement with a number of Fortune 100 companies in the US," according MatrixView's Executive Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Ravindran Govindan.

Mr Arvind Thiagarajan, Principal Inventor and Director, said more work is going on in the Chennai R&D centre to make the compression ratios even better. When these effects fructify, you could have a hundred movies put on a single disc.

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