[mythtv-users] Blu-Ray/HD-DVD versus MythTV HD recordings

Yan Seiner yan at seiner.com
Tue Mar 20 16:22:23 UTC 2007


Brian Wood wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Rod Smith wrote:
>   
>> You wouldn't
>> want to use a lossy compression scheme on your tax return data, for  
>> instance!
>>     
>
> Why not? The government does!
>   
The government uses the 'trapdoor lossy compression algorithm'.  No 
matter which way you compress the data, and who does the compressing, 
only you get to see the loss.  The gov't never does.

:-)




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