The Future of Compressed Files

Turbo10

Turbo10

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I was thinking the other day about how computers are advancing so quickly, about how it will effect things such as rar and zip files. Imagine the compression in 10 years time to be 100mb into 1kb, it would be amazing XD. It would speed up downloads that for sure :)

What do guys think will happen with compressed files? :D
 
Eh I highly doubt it. In 10 years a 100mb will compress to 90mb just like it does now :P 4 years ago 100mb compressed to 90mb as well.
So we haven't done anything special in 4 so how will 10 years change anything? I downloaded old version of WinRAR and 7z as I also was curious (I compress DVD back ups) and didn't notice much of a change.

Don't get me wrong though id love to be proved wrong but it seems we either reached a limit OR people are getting lazy on us.
 
Depends on compression, my OS images which are compressed are about 4 to 5 gigs in size but when expanded onto a computer with all the software and OS installed it takes up about 12 gigs.
 
Eh, I don't really see it happening because we don't need compression. Hard disk sizes are increasing so fast that most people never run out of them. Moreover internet speed is also steadily on the raise so there's not really an incentive for compression.
 
diduknowthat said:
Eh, I don't really see it happening because we don't need compression. Hard disk sizes are increasing so fast that most people never run out of them. Moreover internet speed is also steadily on the raise so there's not really an incentive for compression.
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Sorry, we will always need compression, nothing in computing gets smaller. Do you think Windows installations have gotten smaller over the years? Have applications grown smaller in size? What about video games?

Now think of media and storage and then network transfers. Why on earth would you transfer a 15 gig file over the network to image a machine and not compress it to 1/3 of it's size to make the transfer faster?
 
Nevakonaza said:
This programme is amazing guys and like he said it realy works.

Eats alot of cpu usage though,but as long as you have a decent quad core its fine.
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Once the algorithms used to compress/decompress files becomes optimized it will eat up less CPU. However, encoding/decoding has always been CPU intensive.

I once had a 15gig OS image with apps compressed down to just above 4gigs, which is pretty impressive.
 
I know this isnt up for discussion, but game rippers can compress a whole game into a setup, then compress it again to the files for download... makes 12gb into about 1.5gb
 
Yeah if all the large files on the internet say 2gb were compressed to something a lot smaller say 500mb (ridiculous as it sounds) wouldn't it be a crazy amount faster downloading speed XD, so in a way we could benefit from better compression. But then again it would put more strain on the CPU etc
 
tlarkin said:
Sorry, we will always need compression, nothing in computing gets smaller. Do you think Windows installations have gotten smaller over the years? Have applications grown smaller in size? What about video games?

Now think of media and storage and then network transfers. Why on earth would you transfer a 15 gig file over the network to image a machine and not compress it to 1/3 of it's size to make the transfer faster?
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Because regular computer users aren't going to compress 15 gig files and send them over a network to another machine?
 
diduknowthat said:
Because regular computer users aren't going to compress 15 gig files and send them over a network to another machine?
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Maybe not but look at Steam, Direct2Drive or some other web delivery company. If they were to start highly compressing the images they deliver it can save them money. Lots of it.
 
I agree with cromewell. Also, hdds might be big but everyone will soon make the jump to ssd which will make the demand for smaller files bigger, like laptops make a demand for lower power consumption.
 
linkin said:
I know this isnt up for discussion, but game rippers can compress a whole game into a setup, then compress it again to the files for download... makes 12gb into about 1.5gb
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not that i do it but i have heard of games that are smaller than that when compressed.
 
diduknowthat said:
Because regular computer users aren't going to compress 15 gig files and send them over a network to another machine?
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How do you know what the future lies? What if they come up with a protocol in the application layer of the TCP/IP stack (or a newer standard perhaps) that does all of that on the fly for you automatically to increase transfer times? How about giant media distribution? The ITMS has sold what, over 10 billion songs now? The market will shift and soon you will download bluray disks over the net for a set price, and those are going to get large.

You average user doesn't know what technologies they use every day under the hood, they just know it works.
 
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