He was commissioned to write it as an episodic work for radio, so it is a swift, compressed and much condensed version of the 12, 000-line original.

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Philip John, the technical director of the project, says the version used on Demon has the compressed air entering a single chamber within a wing's trailing edge.

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Aside from compression artifacts, the cable version has other problems too, like cropping and over compressed audio -- both of which are enough to make us yearn for DVD.

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