In the last few years, the ability to provide digital video from a CD-ROM, a telephone line or from a satellite or terrestrial broadcast has moved from science fiction to science fact. The technology to provide the compression rates needed has become available and thus the ability to provide good quality digital video has hit the market place.
Digital video has several advantages over its analogue counterpart:
• It is easy to copy and reproduce without losing or degrading quality. This may or may not be a good thing depending on the point of view. It certainly means that the degradation seen with analogue video recording, such as VCR, will not occur — but it does make it easier for pirates to duplicate copyrighted ...
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