Basic stage:
Examine the changes under a strict set of rules and a database of formats to use. Each format was divided into a group of it's nature: Images, sound, video, text, compression, Adobe, 3D and etc.
During the process each file underwent modification to each of the chosen formats in order to examine quality losses, malfunctions and other peculiar results.
Chosen softwares were chosen to answer needs, and all processes were done with an IOS operating system.
Secondary stage:
Examine the changes using the same format type (for example a jpg file) but different files with different attributes
Third stage:
Examine the changes using different set of formats, expand the research to a large variety of formats, examined using different set of softwares.
Forth stage:
Examine the changes using different operating systems.