No doubt, the outfit is expected to save small amounts per megabyte delivered, but when you're serving video on a massive scale, even pennies count.

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YouTube spokesman Ricardo Reyes counters that YouTube doesn't place in-video advertising on any clips that could potentially violate copyright laws, and that the site faces a challenge of content filtering on a much larger scale than other video sites.

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It is chock-full of features that include ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio technology, 100% sRGB color space compatibility, ASUS exclusive QuickFit Virtual Scale, and Splendid Video Intelligence Technology.

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