[LINK] As Australia’s global internet ranking slips, critics of FTTN grow louder

[David Boxall]

It's coming to something when even the Murdoch media can't avoid the issues.


“We will have an ideas boom after we get through the buffering.”
I've only seen bits of last Monday's Q Didn't want to watch too much, 
lest I throw something at the TV.


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Re: [LINK] Does NBN need a third satellite?

[David Boxall]

On 2/04/2016 1:54 PM, Karl Auer wrote:

...
What many in the IT world do not realise is that "compress" in the
video world BY DEFAULT means "throw data away until the remainder is
small enough". This is antithetical to the concept of high definition.
...
Yes, and the HDR UHD stream that exceeds NBN target bandwidth is AVC 
compressed. Further compression would reduce the quality below 
acceptable limits, as you say.


Tom seems to imply that I refer to uncompressed (though presumably not 
raw) video in the stream.


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