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MP3s have become so ubiquitous that we often forget it's a compression format. When music gets trimmed to one-tenth…

Back in 1894, Olaus Henrici invented a machine called the Harmonic Analyzer. Way ahead of its time, it could pick…

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Streaming video is the future. Well, it's the present, but the future too. And as resolutions increase, it's going…

No one's going to drop $25,000 on a fabulous 84-inch 4K TV without something to watch on it. So to get the broadcast…

Jonathan Harchick has created what is likely the world's longest YouTube video. It's 571 minutes long and takes…

A compressed, blurry image full of compression artifacts is pretty gross—one of the scourges of the internet. But…

One year ago, someone decided to test the image and sound degradation that occurs when you upload a video to…

Jörg M. Colberg, an accomplished astrophysicist and photographer, created a series of images entitled "American…

Comcast has begun compressing HDTV shows in order to deliver more HD channels to you while using the same amount of…

ADS announced InstantVideo To-Go, a nifty little $79.95 widget that supercharges compression of video into that…

Although some of us here at Gizmodo are near-deaf from spending way too much time in musical environments exceeding…