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Google Will No Longer Let Apple Users Enjoy YouTube in 4K Quality

by Alan Spencer

In the future, watching UltraHD on YouTube will require support for Google’s VP9 codec, which Apple has so far not supported. For a decade, content providers have used MPEG4 (and its sub-classes such as …

V-Nova Appoints Turkish Distributor

by Bob Raikes

V-Nova said that it has done a deal with Arttek to extend the distribution to Turkey and will sell to local pay-TV operators, broadcasters and mobile service providers. V-Nova hopes that Working with a …

Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 51

Beamr Imaging Gets Investment

by Bob Raikes

Video optimisation specialist, Beamr Imaging Ltd, has received $4 million in funding from Verizon Ventures. The money will be used to develop improved network performance and and video quality. Analyst Comment Verizon has an …

Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 49

HEVC Advance Drops Some Royalties

by Bob Raikes

HEVC Advance, which is a licence pool of patents for H.265, said that it will not “seek a license or royalties on HEVC functionality implemented in application layer software downloaded to mobile devices or …

Netflix Switches to VP9

by Bob Raikes

Netflix said in its blog that the recent decision to allow downloading of content, as well as streaming, has also been accompanied by the adoption of Google’s VP9 codec rather than the H.264 codec …

AWS offers NGCodec

by Bob Raikes

Amazon web services (AWS) is working with NGCodec to use the firm’s FPGA-based H.265/HEVC video codec which can support high performance encoding of UltraHD with low latency for AR and VR applications. By running …

V-Nova Wins with Eutelsat and FastFilmz

by Bob Raikes

Sadly, the V-Nova press event clashed with another, so we didn’t get there, but we did get a chance to catch up with the company in its meeting room. V-Nova has a proprietary codec, …

Keepixo Pushes Video Transcoding Density to New Levels with Graphics-Enabled Intel® Xeon® Processors

by Isaac Oburu

Keepixo, a leading provider of software-based headend solutions for IP-based video delivery, today announced that its Genova Software suite for OTT has been fully optimized to run on the graphics-enabled Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1500 …

Tags:Codecs| IBC 2016

Independent Evaluation Demonstrates Potential of V‑Nova PERSEUS™ Compression for Online Video

by Isaac Oburu

V-Nova Ltd., a leading provider of video compression solutions, has published the results of a further independent evaluation of its V-Nova PERSEUS™ video compression technology. The evaluation was conducted by independent consultancy informitv and …

Tags:Codecs| V-Nova

MediaTek Selects Allegro DVT AVS2 Compliance Streams

by Isaac Oburu

Allegro DVT, the leader in audio/video compliance streams, announces that MediaTek Inc., a market leader in cutting-edge systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile devices, wireless networking, HDTV, DVD and Blu-ray, has licensed Allegro DVT’s AVS2 compliance …

Tags:Codecs| Mediatek

V-Nova Brings Perseus to IBC

by Tom Allen

V-Nova has announced that its Perseus compression software will be demonstrated at IBC 2016 in Amsterdam (stand 14.K17). These will include mobile VoD platforms; live 1920 x 1980 sports over mobile at sub-1.5Mbps; IPTV …

CineEurope Roundup

by Tom Allen

During an informal meeting, Korea’s CJ Group said that its 4DX technology is spreading across Asia and Latin America. Take-up is now accelerating in mature markets such as Western Europe and the USA. The …