If the PCs from which it is obtaining media also have this fast a connection, Apple TV should be able to obtain digital content much faster than previous products. 802.11n should certainly be fast enough for standard-definition compressed video and reliable enough to carry movie trailers from Apple's Web site without stuttering.

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Video was compressed and audio suffered from a few digital artifacts, but nothing so horrendous as to make it unintelligible.

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Granted, it's impossible to judge the quality from our compressed eyes-on video, but if you can't make it out to NAB, you'll just have to take us on our word that these really are quite stunning.

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Before being compressed for transmission, the video stream is reformatted for the standard Japanese phone's 320-by-240 pixel screen.

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Your video messages are compressed using RealNetworks technology, so anyone with RealPlayer 5.0 or later can view them.

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One concern with a service that relies on constantly streaming video - albeit compressed - over the internet is that users with monthly download limits may quickly exceed those.

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This simply means that the SOURCE video was HDTV, this of course was before the video was re-compressed.

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Once you have edited the video, it can be compressed to a more acceptable size for downloads.

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This streamed video has to be radically compressed to ensure it arrives in a reasonable amount of time.

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So although we think Netflix is a wonderful company, the margins are going to be compressed fairly dramatically as they shift to a streaming video company.

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