Why is it that when a video is sent from Android to iPhone and vice versa, the quality is extremely reduced?

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It’s always seemed weird to me that photos seem to be the same quality as the original (or very close) when sending to and from the same devices. Thank you in advance!

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Doesn’t compressing and decompressing files also distort them the same as making a copy of a copy of a copy ect. So not only is the size a limiting factor of the quality but also the constant compression and decompression worsening the quality.

Each copy gets worse than the previous which is called generation loss. Example below.

[Generation Loss photos (wiki)]
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_loss)

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