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		thayne 15 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Streaming services are driving viewers back to pir... But compression is ambiguous because that could also refer to compressing the video stream to reduce the size of the movie.

kbouck 15 days ago [–]

> compression is ambiguous

I think the unambiguous term for this is "Dynamic Range Compression"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression

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