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Ladsko11/08/20241 replyview on HN

Can you propose a better term for the concept then? Perceiving something as lossless is a real world metric that has a proper use case. "Perceptually lossless" does not try to imply that it is not lossy.


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ComplexSystems11/08/2024

The term for this is "transparency." A codec is "transparent" if people can't tell the difference between the original and the compressed version.

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