Which of the following scenarios best describes the typical process a commodity will undergo

What is the picture?

Perhaps the changes well be new machines that can get the job done faster and same time, there is enough space to keep on building. 

If your choices are: -cropping  -anti-aliasing-imperfection-contrastdownsampling is done to decrease the bit rate when transmitting over a limited bandwidth or to convert to a more limited audio format. this is the opposite of upsampling. so the answer is contrast.