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Old 29-04-2007   #6 (permalink)
TL0
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Re: comparing fidelity of encoded files vs. original

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Originally Posted by heyman421
I wouldn't have said it if i hadn't seen it with my own eyes.

Compression visibly deteriorates the source.
The foundation of lossy visual/audio is based on human perceptions and this in itself varies between individual humans. The graphs are no use for showing if a certain human will be able to differentiate between source & lossy copy, just look at the debate about MPEG-2 reduction methods for an illustration of this fact or 128kb MP3 audio compared to higher bitrate MP3 or other lossy audio formats.
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