[Arny Krueger]

"Mr.T" MrT@home wrote in message
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"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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The questionable presumption here is that it would
always take 20 GB in order to download a HD movie.

The size of lossy-compressed video files is shall we
say, negotiable. ;-)

Just how much extra compression can you apply and still
call it HD Arny?

AFAIK, there is no standard.

I have worked out some methogologies for estimating the actual amount of
data that my HDTV capture card is processing for various TV shows. There is
at least a 3:1 variation in data rate among network and local programs that
display as a 16:9 picture and are labelled as being HDTV.

It's already a compressed format after all.

It appears that the amount of compression can be controlled locally.