Encoding technology

It seems like we have had compression technology forever. We haven't, unless you include the adoption of interlace scanning, the original analog compression system. Digital compression has existed for essentially as long as we have had digitized video (and audio). I distinctly remember attendin...

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Published inBroadcast Engineering Vol. 54; no. 11; p. 52
Main Author Luff, John
Format Journal Article Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Overland Park Endeavor Business Media 01.11.2012
Future Publishing Ltd
Subjects
Analysis
Consumers
Digital broadcasting
Encoders
Evaluation
Image processing
Mathematical optimization
Quality standards
Television broadcasting
Video compression
Video production
United States
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Summary:It seems like we have had compression technology forever. We haven't, unless you include the adoption of interlace scanning, the original analog compression system. Digital compression has existed for essentially as long as we have had digitized video (and audio). I distinctly remember attending SMPTE conferences as a much younger person in which a major topic was bit-rate reduction technology, another term for what we now call compression. Context is everything, so let's venture back a bit to see why this was so complicated.
ISSN:0007-1994