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June 1996 / Bits / Future Watch

Compression may relieve the demands on Internet bandwidth.

Tired of waiting for porky Web pages to load? Web pages consisting of mostly text can compress on the server end and decompress on your machine. Such a compressed page can be half the size of the original, which reduces transfer time . Look for competition among decompression "viewers" using standard squishmeister formats, such as ZIP and StuffIt.

These products are fine for text, but what about slow-motion GIF and JPEG graphics? Iterated Systems already uses its patented fractal-compression technology to deflate Web graphics. Fractal Imager compresses an image. A free viewer is available for downloading from http://www.iterated.com/fracview/download/fv-loadp.htm .

Iterated Systems is also addressing Web-based multimedia with its CoolFusion, for video, animation, and sound. For now, CoolFusion is a codec-independent Netscape 2 plug-in. But the real fun begins this summer when Iterated releases its ClearVideo video-compression drivers. Iterated claims ClearVideo will compress video to data rates as low as 1.25 KBps (up to about 64 KBps).


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