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nuclearbananana t1_jcx973s wrote

> But then then I wonder if internet speeds will increase so much that compression won’t be a thing. Like perfect 8k picture.

Compression will likely always be a thing. I think you mean lossy compression, which actually removes information to make something smaller.

But there's also lossless compression, which simply removes redundancies in data and doesn't lose anything. It's (almost) free storage, just some overhead in decoding. That's not likely to go away.

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