It's probably to do with people who have downloaded images as jpegs to
a computer then re-saved them to another medium like a USB memory
stick. Repeated JPEG compression degrades the quality.
Chris
On 12 Aug 2008, at 14:03, Paul Braun wrote:
> Willie Wonka wrote:
>> So, whats the story...? I am thinking that there are several
>> plausible explanations and all of them have sompin to do with
>> processing within the machine. First comes to mind size and second
>> noise in crappy digicams, third-sharpening and noise.
>>
>> I have no idea how this urban legend was started...it is an urban
>> legend, right?
>>
> Unless it's something to do with the data path in their machine, the
> file on the nerd chip is identical to the file on the flash drive.
> Bits
> is bits.
>
> So, it's most likely the clerk spouting some rumour she read on the
> internet or heard from some "knowledgeable" customer, and taking the
> opportunity to show you what an authority she is.
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