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An analog signal that is digitized without any signal processing will require more bandwidth than the original analog signal. However, television signals are commonly compressed to remove large amounts of data from the digital signal.

As an example, an HD video signal in its raw format in a television studio uses 1483 megabits per second (1.483Gbit). By the time the signal is broadcast to viewers, it has been compressed to as little as 5Mbit per second - less than one percent of the original signal data rate. This is far lower than an equivalent HD analog signal would be.

The dramatic reduction in the data rate relies on complex processing that discards some detail of the image that are not important. It also examines every frame of the image and sends information only on the parts of the image that have changed. If a background is static, then only the moving parts of the foreground are updated. This is one of many techniques used to compress signals. Together, they do a remarkable job of delivering an image that a viewer thinks is as good as the original bt with a fraction of the bandwidth requirement.

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