bitstarve
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cause something to have compression artifacts (esp. blocking) by using too small a bitrate.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "This is why bit-starved transmission streams yield a very blocky appearance. They reveal the blocky structure because the fine detail is lost and that prevents the edges of the macroblocks from merging into one another perfectly."
- "I had Dish for years, ditched them when they couldn't get me HD equipment in a timely manner and insisted on charging me $3 if I didn't hook my equipment to a phone line. WTF! Went to Comcast, gave me a great deal. But, they got bought by TW, and I am not impressed so far, so when my smokin deal runs out, I will likely try DTV, though they bitstarve the shit out of their HD content, and I watch 90% HD."