I am by no means an expert, and this by no means is indicative of a video compression FPGA, but I've been looking at .GZIP and .PNG accelerators and it seems th

I am by no means an expert, and this by no means is indicative of a video compression FPGA, but I've been looking at .GZIP and .PNG accelerators and it seems that while they deliver incredible speed, it is done so at the worst compression ratio you can fit in the compression spec. Equivalent to .GZIP setting 2, or maybe equivalent to a "super fast" or "ultra fast" video preset. It is important to note that these are lossless algorithms though. Still, it may not make sense to utilize if your application is bandwidth sensitive. If 4k Netflix doubled it's bitrate by switching to FPGA solutions, that would probably be too high of a cost, even for a 20x speedup. At least until high quality internet speeds become more universal of course.