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  "limitations": "This is sampled visual review of 14 of 70 assets and selected face/hair/hand regions, not an assertion of pixel equality or exhaustive every-pixel review. Lossless Master is resampled for a fair same-size comparison; naturally occurring size reduction is not mislabeled as compression damage.",
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