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The whole issue of mpeg like compression will not go away.
Consider buying a digital camera.
Until some years ago, most were mjpeg, producing a stream of digital jpeg pictures (on tape).
These days we see more and more cameras with build in MPEG2 or whatever encoder, recording
to FLASH memory.

If I had to be true to my understanding, and regarding the future, I would
go for a mjpeg format, not a time compressed format like mpeg.
Because the artefacts created by the mpeg like encoders cannot be undone.
A stream of jpeg pictures is easier edited too.
Memory size of FLASH will continue to increase, for a while at least,
we see phase-change memory chips appearing too.
It is the same with mp3 and wav, some music I just store as wave, and play as wave, enough memory...
The quality is simply better then mp3, no matter what the bitrate, I mean use lossless compression.
So, except perhaps for transmission, where there is a bandwidth limit, we shall be moving back to
uncompressed formats for video too, as memory increases (wow think YUV).
Something to think about when buying a digital video camera.
But then, maybe I am ahead of things again here.
I have both types of cameras... will hold on to them.
Did I say that mpeg and friends is only a temporary solution? YES.
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