1. A digital image compression method comprising: identifying a plurality of areas of interest in a sequence of related images, wherein a size of the identified areas of interest corresponds to an angular coverage of an average human fovea at a predetermined viewing distance; determining most popular identified areas of interest that comprises less than all of the plurality of identified areas of interest; and encoding the most popular identified areas of interest at a first quality level and unidentified areas of the image at a second and lower quality level than the most popular identified areas to produce a compressed copy of each image.