CanonFanBoy said:
"The AP reported today that gullible members of various internet camera forums had their cameras bricked by the dangerous Canon't virus when they downloaded what they were told was a revolutionary new video codec. John McAfee's company is now working on antivirus software for cameras. A cyber terrorist going by the moniker "HarryFilm", with reported ties to Sony, is being investigated by Homeland Security and Interpol."
Disclaimer: Just kidding Harry.
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Technically, the codec itself is DONE as of today! AS IN RIGHT NOW!
We are going to be contacting a few camera makers and software companies FIRST....WHICH INCLUDES Canon, Sony, Nikon...AND...Microsoft, Google, Amazon, facebook etc. to see if THEY want to BUY us since THE CODEC IS AWESOME !!!!!
It does EVERYTHING !!!! Real-time multi-stream Metadata, INCREDIBLE editing-friendly and low-cpu-horsepower playback-friendly INTRA-FRAME and INTER-FRAME encoding and playback at ANY Resolution from 16x16 pixels up to 65536 by 65536 pixels at 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and even 32 bits per colour and alpha channel...It has BETTER visual quality than HVEC/MP4 at a BETTER compression ratio.....so we saw the light and decided to try and make a BUCK OR BILLION off of this codec technology....Money $$$ Talks! AND we also have a ANOTHER PLEASANT SURPRISE for the buyers but we can't tell you unless under we have an ironclad NDA....
It is FULLY chippable on a pure ASIC, an FPGA, or as executable microcode in a BIOS for ARM, x86, SPARC, IBM POWER and other CPU cores (i.e. it is also Multi-core, multi-CPU and multi-GPU/DSP-friendly) having BUILT-IN FULLY ENCRYPTED MULTIPLE image data and ENCRYPTED multiple metadata streams!
We suddenly saw just how valuable this IP (Intellectual Property) is and SINCE we use NO OPEN SOURCE CODE AT ALL being all proprietary and designed FULLY in-house, using NO 3rd party code libraries, it is UNLIKELY that any legal challenge can be made (we did due diligence on all current codecs.) This is means to YOU CANON, SONY, MICROSOFT, et al...
DO MAKE US A CASH OFFER WE SIMPLY CANNOT REFUSE !!!!!
We will be contacting y'all within two weeks.....
And for the REST OF YA...WE KNOW SOMEONE will buy us...but we don't know who just yet...wait for the news announcements coming soon.....
Yes we know this is a complete 180 degree turnabout from our previous freeware/open source position...but in this case WE ARE VERY HUNGRY DEVELOPERS who need to make some bucks and feed our families, SOOOOOO.....we decided to find some buyers for our technology....ANYWAYS....do keep watching here for some more announcements to be made within one to two weeks! -- We DO have a software-surprise for you here on CanonRumors which will make his change more bearable...