quality reduction

But so, too, he says, are unmeasured quality reductions - notably in services.

This is why, in hard times, companies typically turn to cost-cutting measures such as layoffs and product quality reductions.

Scalability generally refers to a quality reduction achieved by manipulation of the bitstream or file (without decompression and re-compression).

Moving from the current (not too shabby) iPad screen to a higher res one won't have any major quality reduction, most people won;t even be able to tell, even if it's not a linear doubling.

Many modern image stabilization lenses (notably Canon's more recent IS lenses) are able to auto-detect that they are tripod-mounted (as a result of extremely low vibration readings) and disable IS automatically to prevent this and any consequent image quality reduction.

In the past, Shorewest TV was moved to WBME-DT2 during NCAA multicasting periods to address multicasting bandwidth concerns and does see quality reductions at some times to allow WDJT to devote more bandwidth to certain CBS programming.