"Video files are big," he began. "Too big for old VHS tapes. So smart people invented a way to throw away the parts your eye doesn't see—like the blurry grass in the background or the same wall in every shot. My experiment shows that a new method called x265 can shrink a TV episode to half its size without making Captain Picard look like a potato. In the future, this will let you fit entire seasons on a disc the size of a cookie. Thank you for listening. I had seventeen seconds left, which I will now use to stare awkwardly at the clock."
Sheldon adjusted his bow tie. "Mother, that’s physically impossible. My project on the efficiency of the x265 video compression standard relative to H.264 requires at least forty-seven minutes to establish the necessary mathematical groundwork." young sheldon s06e09 x265
Missy stared. "So… you're shrinking Star Trek?" "Video files are big," he began
In his bedroom, which doubled as a laboratory for theoretical physics and the occasional ant farm, Sheldon had rigged two VCRs, a clunky IBM PS/1, and a bootleg copy of Star Trek: The Next Generation recorded off a satellite feed. He was testing how much visual data could be discarded without ruining Captain Picard’s bald head. My experiment shows that a new method called
The audience of parents and bored children sat in stunned silence. Then Missy, sitting in the third row, clapped loudly and yelled, "That's my weird brother!"
"Yes."
She said yes.