Beyond higher bandwidth, one of the more interesting features of eDP 1.4a is Display Stream Compression (DSC), a standard developed by VESA and MIPI that—as the name implies—compresses the output video signal. According to VESA, the compression is “visually lossless” (i.e., it is lossy, but your games won’t suddenly look like a hand-me-down JPEG).

“Visually lossless” is a stunningly great bullshit phrase. By that standard, my entire MP3 collection is aurally lossless!

Compression that loses some data but is close enough for the losses not to be perceived by people is the definition of lossy compression, and “lossless” specifically means not that.

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NextMovie has spent a lot of time going through the first ten seasons of The Simpsons and creating a supercut with every single movie reference in that first ten years of the series. The two resulting videos add up to over 40 minutes of video, almost the size of two Simpsons episodes (minus commercials). Watch the supercuts embedded after the jump.

Seasons 1-5:

Seasons 6-10:

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