The BD-F7500's video processor includes a proprietary Samsung algorithm that improves the visual quality of block-based low bit-rate coded images and reduces blocking artifacts.
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The biggest drawback of Bluetooth is that it compresses and degrades audio quality, but my usually picky ears didn't notice the compression while playing back high bit-rate MP3s.
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Another reason to suspect that the Fed is more than a bit player is that American interest-rate decisions have a disproportionate effect on global monetary conditions.
The European Central Bank, operating within the legal limits imposed on it by the treaties that govern the European Union, is providing some liquidity to the banks and a bit of relief on the interest-rate front for sovereign borrowers, but it cannot do much to prevent the insolvent from being forced to default.
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The reason it may be controversial that British banks have borrowed so much from the ECB - a bit less than 4% of all the money on offer - is that the interest rate is so low, just 1%.
Meanwhile, with the bailout assured, investors are expecting a bit of turbo power behind it with an interest-rate cut from the Federal Reserve, which currently is targeting a 2.0% annual interest rate on overnight money.
Delinquency rates on variable-interest-rate loans to subprime borrowers, which account for a bit less than 10 percent of all mortgages outstanding, have climbed sharply in recent months.
He is a bit of a Carl Hayman type, a good scrummager with a big work-rate, and good lifting ability at the line-out.
Ghai was a bit more optimistic on Europe, as the rate of adoption is only around 30%-40% (compared to 50% in the U.S.).
Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia boast the gaudiest year-on-year price increases, even if the rate of appreciation is down a bit from the summer.
The jobless rate as a share of all aged 16-24 is 13%, a bit less scary if hardly comforting.
Earlier this week, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said the main effect of FLS so far was to make fixed-rate mortgage deals, which account for about two-thirds of all new mortgage borrowing, a bit cheaper than before.
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