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About the HRZ format
HRZ — Slow Scan Television Image
HRZ is a raw image format associated with Slow Scan Television (SSTV), a method of transmitting images over radio (shortwave or amateur radio). SSTV images are 256×240 pixels encoded as audio tones and used by amateur radio operators worldwide.
Common uses
- Amateur radio SSTV image transmission and reception
- Converting SSTV received images to standard formats
- Ham radio image archiving
- Historical radio communication image recovery
About the TXZ format
TXZ — XZ-compressed TAR Archive
TXZ (also .tar.xz) is a TAR archive compressed with the XZ algorithm, which is based on LZMA2. It provides the highest compression ratios of the common tar formats, making it the preferred choice for official Linux distribution packages (Arch, Fedora, Gentoo). The trade-off is slower compression speed versus gzip or bzip2.
Common uses
- Official Linux distribution package format (e.g., Arch Linux)
- Maximum compression of large software releases
- Distributing firmware and embedded system images
- Archiving large datasets for long-term storage
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How long are my files kept?
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