From: Stef24hah you beat me to it. i was about to post this:
i just saw a most intresting program on Dutch TV about the "sloot Digital Coding System". Electronics expert Jan Sloot spend 20 years developing a coding system that compresses video to mind boggling extent.
SDCD is a new alphabet for storing digital information which no longer uses the binary system of 1 and 0, but a much more efficient method. Just like with text, movies are composed of a finite number of colors and sounds. All those finite elements were encoded in 5 different algorithms of 74MB resulting in a total of 370MB - this is the core of the invention. The only thing needed to complete the system would be a fitting key which takes up just 1KB. Like this, dozens of keys can be stored on a simple chip.
So after making a payment, somebody could download the keys to a dozen movies via cellphone to then watch the movies at home on a player containing the basic algorithm. Should this ever reach the commercial market all CD, DVD, tapes and diskettes would cease to exist, aswell as fiber optics. The coper wire and the cell phone would be worth more than gold. Everything would change
Jan Sloot presented his Digital Coding System to a bunch of investitors who eventually took him to the Philips headquarters, where he showed his invention to Philip's CEO Roel Pieper. The demonstration on the top floor of the Philips headquartes involved playing 16 movies at the same time from a box containing a 64KB chip, attached to his laptop - no hard drive.
Roel Pieper took Jan Sloot to the headquarters of Computer Associates in the States where he was told "you are going to be the richest man on earth"
But two days before the source code was to be handed over he was mysteriously found dead in his garden. The source code has never been found by the security agencies assigned to try and recover it, but the box was apparently previously opened by Philips without Jan Sloot's permission ... stolen?
The story has been written in a book ("De Broncode" transl The Source code) by a journalist who was present during much of the demonstrations and followed everything closely.
several online links document the story and the technology in detail but unfortunatly there is no english information!
the final part of the TV program is on Sept 12
i hope the dutch readers of this forum can start a discussion about this. here are some links. alternatively, google for "sloot digital coding system". very much looking forward to discussions about this
article in the press:
http://www.nrc.nl/W2/Nieuws/2001/01/23/Vp/07.htmlwebsite of the tv program:
http://www.netwerk.tv/index.jsp?p=items ... k&a=131206detailed story from Quote Media:
http://www.gids.nl/techno/jan-sloot.htmlarticle by a non believer:
http://www.exp-math.uni-essen.de/~immin ... ed2001.htmanother article:
http://www.uitgeverijpodium.nl/index.htmland technical discussions can be found on usenet in nl.comp.programmeren