Word: compressional
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"At this point, we are acquiring images without destructive compression, but speed becomes an issue," said Michael A. Viera, assistant director of radiology administration at Brigham and Women's.
But right now, it's the video-game designers who have the electronic ball. The rapid advance of technology in the past decade has given them a set of tools with almost unimaginable power: high-speed computer-graphics chips that can create millions of bright colors and flash them on...
Such deals, though substantial, barely hint at the ultimate scope of Murdoch's latest thrust: to cover the earth with his own digital superhighway. To increase his market penetration, the media baron is developing a digital compression system to enable TV satellites to beam down 180 channels, thereby allowing most...
Nowhere is Murdoch rushing ahead more rapidly than in Europe, where his expansion of BSkyB is part of a slew of new ventures. Partners include Britain's National Transcommunication Ltd., a research facility that will help him develop video compression, and Cellnet, a cellular-phone firm that will team up...
While such a utility may be useful for those alarmed by the rapid shrinkage of available space on their hard disks, most users will probably still find it easier to delete unwanted application files to free up space. The biggest problem with disk-compression is that you can't undo...