I am guessing high bitrate is good but i have no clue what is it?
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A bit is a binary 1 or 0. Data is transferred bit by bit, by having the electrical signal go high or low. The higher the bitrate, the faster the signals can be sent and processed.
A Bit is just a tiny piece of data, either 0 or 1. The bit rate tells you how many of those bits are used in a second (sometimes minutes,hours,..) of a movie, music, … . With a higher Bitrate, the quality is higher, but the file also ends up being larger, which is bad for slow internet connections or if you have limited space on your phone/computer. That’s why low Bitrate exists. The quality is lower, but it also uses less storage.
This is the reason why for example Spotify, YouTube and Netflix offer multiple resolutions like 480p. 720p ,1080p, … so that every one can watch a video, even if their internet connection is not that great.
So Bitrate is basically a tradeoff between quality and file size
Quickly said: bitrate just determines how much data you can transmit per time. If the bitrate is 20kb/s that means you can send 20 kilobytes of data every second.
Bandwidth is a bit different. This is also how much data you can max send at once, but not the same as bitrate
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