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Digital bandwidth may also refer to: [[bit rate#Multimedia|multimedia bit rate]] or [[average bitrate]] after multimedia [[data compression]] ([[source coding]]), defined as the total amount of data divided by the playback time.
 
Due to the impractically high bandwidth requirements of uncompressed [[digital media]], the required multimedia bandwidth can be significantly reduced with data compression.<ref name="Lee">{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Jack |title=Scalable Continuous Media Streaming Systems: Architecture, Design, Analysis and Implementation |date=2005 |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |isbn=9780470857649 |page=25 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7fuvu52cyNEC&pg=PA25}}</ref> The most widely used data compression technique for media bandwidth reduction is the [[discrete cosine transform]] (DCT), which was first proposed by [[N.Nasir Ahmed (engineer)|Nasir Ahmed]] in the early 1970s.<ref name="Stankovic">{{cite journal |last1=Stanković |first1=Radomir S. |last2=Astola |first2=Jaakko T. |title=Reminiscences of the Early Work in DCT: Interview with K.R. Rao |journal=Reprints from the Early Days of Information Sciences |date=2012 |volume=60 |url=http://ticsp.cs.tut.fi/reports/ticsp-report-60-reprint-rao-corrected.pdf |access-date=13 October 2019}}</ref> DCT compression significantly reduces the amount of memory and bandwidth required for digital signals, capable of achieving a [[data compression ratio]] of up to 100:1 compared to uncompressed media.<ref name="Lea">{{cite book |last1=Lea |first1=William |title=Video on demand: Research Paper 94/68 |date=1994 |publisher=[[House of Commons Library]] |url=https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/RP94-68 |access-date=20 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920082623/https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/RP94-68 |archive-date=20 September 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
 
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