This sounds more like a benefit for multiple things.

Machine Learning for Video is ideally boosting quality of the image, thus removing as much of a need for decompression software which is great for clarity and higher resolution content.

The tech could also be used at a system level in something like a PS5 Pro or PS6 family for machine learning for games, allowing them to upscale better at lower resolutions like DLSS and XESS, which is great.

Or it could be used for streaming games, allowing them to natively stream at resolutions like 720p - 1080p through the internet, but display to consumers at 1440p - 4K thanks to machine learning, thus allowing lower bandwidth connections to have access to high quality streams. Not for me, but great for those who use it.

If you have seen the latest tests on the new PS5 streaming, you may have noticed just how sharp the picture is (at 4k). It sounds like the AI is reconstructing the image...a la DLSS? This is all speculation. 480p probably isn't enough to reconstruct 4k tho. Now that i thik about it could this this be how the PRO does 8k?

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Agreed!

Lol...and it's always been some name i never heard of before.

Actually made an account so that I could answer this. The reason that Sony Interactive Entertainment bought them is because of their PlayStation streaming plans.

Videogame streaming is a video feed essentially. There's rapid x264 encoding that happens to compress the full feed to something that can stream over the internet. IIRC PS5 has a built in chip that handles the on-the-fly encoding. But as you can see from the streaming demands for 4k titles, the bitrate is still very high and you need strong internet to stream at high quality.

This company enables AI and machine learning to optimize the video feed on the fly to lower the bitrate, thus lowering the internet requirements to stream PS5 games from the cloud and theoretically, even for Remote Play.

This purchase was solely for the benefit of their streaming plans. iSize isn't going to magically make game streaming flawless, but it could make a big difference. Imagine being able to stream 4k/8k without needing to burn 15mbs-30mb/s. For folks with data caps, that is a game changer if the difference is big enough.

Edit - This also makes a big difference for streaming over cellular. You can do Remote Play over cellular data but it warns you against it, because the bandwidth and total data demands will blow through most people's data caps quickly. It is a very different story than streaming Netflix over cellular data. This company could theoretically enable PS5 streaming over cellular data, without it destroying your data cap or requiring 5G bandwidth.

Literally in the article.

*iSIZE has a team of talented engineers and technical experts who have developed a suite of software solutions to optimize video. For example, the company built an AI-based perceptual preprocessing solution that allows conventional, third-party encoders to produce higher quality video at a significantly lower bitrate*

I am contacting my local congressman. The authorities will stop Sony's plan to monopolize the industry. Mark my words.

@ both of you above. MS buys up Bethesda and Activision with a huge number of developers and IP. Sony buys a small video streaming company. MONOPOLY!! You guys are truly idiots.

Guess maths aren't your strongest skills If you find an equivalent between this and Zenimax & AB.

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Let me be clear. This is sarcasm

But all of the great games have been made by humans

One is by choice, the other is a feature.