In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...

Image and video coding encompasses a diverse array of techniques aimed at reducing the volume of visual data for storage and transmission, while preserving perceptual quality. These methods range from ...

It used to be that memory and storage space were so precious and so limited of a resource that handling nontrivial amounts of text was a serious problem. Text compression was a highly practical ...