Digital information

One hour of video

A one-hour digital video recording with sound, encoded at a specified bitrate.

How big is it?

3.6 GB of data

Data · example

Scale illustration of One hour of video, calibrated to its data measurement.
The marked data represents 3.6 GB.

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128 GB phone is about 35.6 times larger on this measurement.

128 GB phone: Phone storage is the digital memory in a mobile phone used to keep apps, photos, videos and other files.

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Bar length represents bytes. The physical sizes of devices are schematic; encoding and compression affect file sizes.
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One hour of video

A one-hour video at 8 Mbit/s including all streams in the chosen bitrate; overhead ignored.

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128 GB phone

128 billion advertised bytes. Operating-system and formatting space are not deducted.

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The marked data is calibrated. Unmeasured illustration details are representative.

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Why we use 3.6 GB

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A one-hour video at 8 Mbit/s including all streams in the chosen bitrate; overhead ignored.

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One hour of video dimensions and measurements

PropertySelected valueRecorded rangeBasis
3.6 GBNot recordedexample

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