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bitstarve en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (US) audio

Etymology

bit + starve

Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause something to have compression artifacts (esp. blocking) by using too small a bitrate.
   • This is why bit-starved transmission streams yield a very blocky appearance. They reveal the blocky structure because the fine detail is lost and that prevents the edges of the macroblocks from merging into one another perfectly. 2005, Cliff Wootton, A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression: From Sprockets and Rasters to Macroblocks, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 206:
   • I had Dish for years, ditched them when they couldn't get me HD equipment in a timely manner and insisted on charging me $3 if I didn't hook my equipment to a phone line. WTF! Went to Comcast, gave me a great deal. But, they got bought by TW, and I am not impressed so far, so when my smokin deal runs out, I will likely try DTV, though they bitstarve the shit out of their HD content, and I watch 90% HD. 2006 November 24, Venger, “NFL turns back on 52 million cable viewers”, in alt.sports.football.pro.dallas-cowboys (Usenet):

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