[Home]History of Lossy data compression

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Revision 10 . . November 28, 2001 3:57 pm by RobLa [Changed link to streaming media and added codec link]
Revision 9 . . October 22, 2001 2:37 pm by RobLa [Added a few ITU standards]
Revision 8 . . (edit) October 7, 2001 12:38 am by Zundark [remove a full stop from the middle of a sentence, and fix a link]
  
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A lossy data compression method is one where compressing a file and then decompressing it retrieves a file that may well be different to the original, but is "close enough" to be useful in some way. Used a lot on the Internet and especially in Streaming Media applications
A lossy data compression method is one where compressing a file and then decompressing it retrieves a file that may well be different to the original, but is "close enough" to be useful in some way. Used a lot on the Internet and especially in streaming media and telephony applications. These methods are typically referred to as codecs in this context.

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See also: Codec
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