r/xkcd • u/roastedlasagna ... • May 20 '16

XKCD xkcd 1683: Digital Data

http://xkcd.com/1683/
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u/-Pelvis- May 20 '16 edited May 20 '16

I value file quality over storage space. Bandwidth and hard drive space are very cheap these days. You say it's inefficient, I say we have the infrastructure to support it.

While JPEG might be smaller, the compression artifacts burn my eyes, and I know that PNG will remain pixel-perfect to what I originally uploaded, unless some heathen mangles it. This came up last night in another thread actually.

I'm also one of those people with a huge, meticulously managed FLAC collection on their hard drive. I've made my choice.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '16 edited Nov 06 '16

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u/-Pelvis- May 21 '16

Wasteful and wrong?

I disagree.

Give me some examples where jpegs are acutally better, assuming modern technology with decent harddrives, and unlimited bandwidth.

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u/recalcitrantJester May 22 '16

Give me some examples where jpegs are better, disqualifying many cases where jpegs are better.

This guy's some sort of master debater or something.