On Thursday, November 07, 2019, at 10:30 AM, WriterOfMinds wrote:
> The compressed output still contains less information than the original, 
> ergo, it is lossy.

Naturally if you have the original raw data to compare. You almost never do, 
that’s why you compress. For example, some compressors built into camera 
electronics spit out compressed directly.

But a perceptual lossless compressor might not remove ANY information. It might 
be effectively lossless it’s not guaranteed to be lossy. For example, an audio 
recorder that records a subset of the frequencies detectable by the human ear 
or a camera that only records subtle shades of red might produce lossless. 
Granted in most applications it’s lossy but conceptually you don’t know unless 
you have the original defeating the purpose of compressed data transmission.
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