MPEG-2 is one of the predominant audiovisual compression system used in digital TV systems to date (along with MPEG-4). The technology is employed within hundreds of millions of digital and cable STBs, in addition to a host of personal computers and DVD players. A large proportion of the video seen on television today has been encoded with MPEG-2 at some point in its transmission.
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