Tiny files set for a big future / BBC, 30 March 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6507891.stm
Ian Hardy
"A lot of technologies have conspired to make it easier for us to capture and share images and video on the web and with our friends and family. One of the most unsung is compression but without that there would be no photos on the web, movies on DVD or digital TV."