The original Turing test deals with artificial intelligence: Turing said that AI is truly AI when you chat with someone and from his answers you cannot distinguish whether he is a real person or a computer. Now, I have proposed the Turing Test for DVDs: If you watch a DVD and you cannot tell whether it is the original or a compressed copy, then the copying is succesful.
I ran a few test the past couple of days, comparing the original DVD, the DVD-Shrink copy of it (which takes 3.5 hours) and the DVD-Fab Express copy of it (which takes 20 minutes), both at 50% compression (which is quite big).
In our 92" projection screen, we could barely tell a difference between the original DVD and the DVD-Shrink copy. There is just a little bit of difference, and you have to be watching for the details to realize it. Also, we could not tell a single difference between the 2 copies: both programs work amazingly well.
Sunday, September 11, 2005
Categories
- Apple (41)
- Art (2)
- Astronomy (2)
- Books (1)
- Conferences (35)
- cool (30)
- Explanations (1)
- Favorites (39)
- Flight Blogs (8)
- food (4)
- geeky (71)
- Greece (19)
- greeks (20)
- hdr (6)
- hdr london (1)
- internet (2)
- iPhone (3)
- kids (2)
- Las Vegas (11)
- life (143)
- London (22)
- Los Angeles (40)
- Lost (37)
- matlab (1)
- Maui (5)
- Miami and The Bahamas (11)
- Movies (109)
- nature (1)
- New York (39)
- New York Guide (10)
- phd (14)
- Photography (2)
- Physics (1)
- Plasma Road Trip (10)
- Podcast (6)
- science (39)
- shows (17)
- TED (4)
- trips (102)
- United Kingdom (5)
- USA (7)
- usc (3)
- Vista (9)
- weather (1)
- wedding (3)
- ΕΜΠ (1)