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You love Netflix, Prime Video, MX Player, and Hotstar? Hail the compressionists.

You love Netflix, Prime Video, MX Player, and Hotstar? Hail the compressionists.
You love Netflix, Prime Video, MX Player, and Hotstar? Hail the compressionists.
Dr Claude E Shannon an electrical engineer at the Bell Telephone Laboratories; Haystacks at Chailly by Claude Monet; image credit: Getty Images; Wikiarts

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Millions of people use various bandwidths to consume content on multiple devices and platforms simultaneously. Many would credit multiple servers and data centres working round the clock for making this possible. But the real deal here is software, and the men and women who work tirelessly to deliver a seamless viewing experience to you, the end user.

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour… William BlakeWe must begin at the beginning. 1874. Paris. An exhibition of a group of painters is organised. On display are the works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and Claude Monet. Critics visit the show and single out the flagship painting of the exhibition — Monet’s Impression, Sunrise — for
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