Alas, the video transfer isn't so great--the colors are so overwhelmingly vivid that they seem to resist digital encoding.

Full-screen, full-motion video's vast storage requirements meant that the promise of digital encoding would not be realized on desktop computers for at least another decade.

The Real Networks system also comes during a period of intensive innovation and competition between different digital encoding and compression schemes.

The file format of capella evolved from a proprietary digital encoding (filename extension *.

The digital encoding and the equipment are free as long as they agree to play a seven-minute promotional film for BMW before each screening.

The system can also be used for other media, such as movies and music which are recorded with a digital encoding.

Thanks to the digital encoding, the listener could even isolate background or foreground sounds and play them separately.

The reason for this encoding is that the wide dynamic range of speech does not lend itself well to efficient linear digital encoding.

Philips came up with the idea of using laser beams for recording and playback, and Sony worked out the necessary digital encoding and decoding schemes.

During his post-graduate work there he became involved in early experiments in digital encoding of audio for the military.