MTI's products focus on the technical end, and the company reports it is currently the only one to provide such software technology for automated restoration. MTI initially intended to develop applications for motion-compensated reformatting and standards conversion, as well as restoration. After the ATP project began, the company decided to focus almost exclusively on restoration, based on a reassessment of the market for conversion software and services. MTI succeeded, and it is offering the software for use with contemporary and archived movies. In addition, the company says it is about two years ahead of where it would have been without the ATP funds.
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As MTI's mathematical algorithm technology is applied to more films, more viewers will benefit. Further benefits will emerge if the technology is used in other areas. It has potential applications, for example, in forward-looking infrared imagery, which is used by the military to detect objects at night, and may also be useful in medical imaging procedures such as ultrasound and fluoroscopy. Additional benefits will materialize if the technology for standards conversion is completed. The film-restoration technology already commercialized promises spillover economic benefits to the viewing public and to owners of films with defects.