Verizon FiOS TV spot boasts of "uncompressed" HD

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TrentD @ Apr 4th 2008 3:39PM

Uncompressed? According to whom?

ALL HD is compressed. The master is about 50 times more bandwidth intensive than the maximum 19-point-something mbps signal that is the ATSC spec.

What they really mean is "we don't apply ADDITIONAL" compression to the signal. The content originator certainly is compressing it pretty severely. Great article in "Widescreen Review" this month on the topic of video compression.

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