NuwandaIn the future, retro-looking videos will have compression artifacts instead of film grain.
Compression artifacts will exist as long as we use lossy video compression. You can however eliminate visible to the eye artifacts with high enough bitrate, but that has always been the case.
Considering the ungodly size of raw video or even video with lossless compression, we will need lossy compression for the next century.
It will only change if the bandwidth and storage become practically free, which would require some unforseen breakthrough in technology.
rm_dash_r_starYes compression will always be required. The raw video they work with in production takes up enormous amounts of drive space. As things become less restricted it only means we’ll be able to use less compression and higher bitrates. Though you can use fairly liberal bitrates with local storage already I have zero issue with local videos, but I can run into compression artifacts when streaming from sites with less than optimal bitrates.
PsythikCompression, yes, but lossy compression will eventually die, even for video.
I already stopped downloading MP3s. Storage space is cheap and abundant enough now that I replaced almost my entire music collection with FLACs.