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JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts Group
TIFF
Tagged Image File Format
PNG
Portable Network Graphics
PICT
Apple Graphics
GIFF
Graphics Interchange Format
MP4
MPEG-4 Part 14
MPEG
Moving/ Motion Pictures Experts Group
AVI
Audio Video Interleaved
TXT
Plain text
CSV
Comma Separated Value
RTF
Rich Text Format
Portable Document File
MP3
MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3
MIDI
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
WAV
Windows Audio Waveform
WMA
Windows Media Audio
What is data compression?
Used to reduce file size but maintain quality
Why do we use compression?
Improve website loading times
Faster upload and download speeds
Save storage space
Lossy compression
Reduces file size by removing some data with small reduction in quality e.g JPEG
Lossless compression
Maintains quality as no data is lost e.g WinZip
