Video for Kindle

That's a clever way to radically compress a video! It's like a final-video-back-to-storyboard converter.

One blemish on the in-page player is the 'loading' dialog that pops on each forward-frame.

The player could also benefit from an auto-advance feature... perhaps a fade from frame to frame? (How much faster than realtime could a show be watched this way? I've occasionally tried to watch a Tivo'd show at 2x with captions on, but captions get missed or excluded by the onscreen controls.)

Certainly could try doing a slideshow-plus-audio, too.

FYI, the PDF is about 23MB, 528 frames each 30-60KB each. IIRC, a standard-definition ~22 minute sitcom from ITunes runs 250-300MB in size.

That's fantastically impressive.

Using that to enable people to catch up with episodes of TV they've missed, but in less time that it would take to watch the episode would probably be very popular.

Perhaps somebody could create a service and send new episodes automatically to the free Kindle e-mail address that pushes via WiFi.

That way, once a new episode comes out, boom, it's on your Kindle ready to watch with no intervention on your part.

Awesome idea. One obvious problem I noticed when flipping through the example is the motion blur. I wonder if there are any algorithms that can reduce that given several frames of motion.

This is quite innovative, really.

Works well enough that I got sucked into the show in the middle rather than finishing the article ;)

This is seriously cool stuff! I'd love to see this ported to work more broadly; Perhaps anime might be a good usage;

There's a lot of material out there with subtitles due to the language barrier.. Wow. This is just really nice.

I would love to watch films/tv episodes on my kindle this way. Although half of the enjoyment is in watching an actor perform - I find it a struggle to spend any significant time watching television. Whereas, I could consume an episode fairly quickly in this format.

Although I'm sure a lot would be lost in translation. Could you imagine watching Scrubs in this format? Or House?

I don't own an eReader and therefore have never had this problem but it's still a really nice idea and it could be popular.

I assume that keeping up with Eastenders is laborious at the best of times so this could take some of the load off :P

I wonder if there are other possibilities for this? Such as, you could use it to produce print versions of educational videos for distributing to poor rural areas...

Just to test it I ran through the embedded viewer, but it wasn't that much faster than watching it (based on the timer in the corner).

Still very cool idea, though.

Forget all the fuss about 3D this is much better way to see movies

This is awesome, I would pay for this as a service.

This is awesome.

Very impressed.