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Links Week Ending 1st October 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Dubai Cares And LG Electronics Sign Partnership …

Peerless Entertains With A/V at Lords

by Bob Raikes

Wow – two events in just three months or so! My schedule has got so hectic, now, and the second event was the Peerless AV event at the hallowed traditional home of cricket, the …

AI for Encoding Coming in Different Phases

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association published an article that quoted Thierry Fautier, VP of Strategy at Harmonic who talked about how AI and machine learning (ML) could be used to optimise content for …

Tags:Big Data/AI| Broadcast| Codecs| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

Beamr Celebrates 50 Granted Patents

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Image technology specialist, Beamr, posted a blog claiming that it has now got 50 granted patents. It’s first business was in optimising images for more efficient compression while maintaining the subjective …

Tags:Codecs| Patents

Tencent Pioneers H.266/VVC Commercialization for Cloud Services

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Tencent of China said that its transcoding and media processing apps can support the H266/VVC codec which is expected to reduce file sizes by a further 50% compared to H.265/HEVC. The …

Tags:China| Codecs| Game Playing

Ateme Titan Becomes the First Live Transcoder on the Market to Natively Support Both Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos Technologies

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Broadcast equipment maker Ateme said that it has integrated Dolby Vision and Atmos technologies into its Titan Live system for live encoding of broadcast signals. It will also support Dolby AC-4 …

Tags:Broadcast| Codecs| Dolby Vision

Some Quick Takes on 8K “Per-Title” Encoding

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The 8K Association discussed ‘per-title’ encoding (“per-title encoding” is a Netflix term that refers to creating encoding parameters on a scene-by-scene basis) of 8K content with Jan Ozer. There were two …

Tags:Codecs| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Visual Quality

A New Compression Paradigm

by Bob Raikes

What They Say SMPTE interviewed Matthew Goldman, a SMPTE Fellow and past SMPTE President and previously with MediaKind, about developments in codecs and why there is more proliferation of different technology. He pointed out …

Tags:Codecs| OTT Video

V-Nova LCEVC Licensing Will Be Free for Chipmakers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We’ve run it as a press release (V-Nova LCEVC Licensing Terms Announced, but we thought it was highlighting that V-Nova has announced that its LCEVC licence is free for companies that …

Tags:Codecs| V-Nova

SMPTE: “Trim the UHD codecs”

by Bob Raikes

What They Say In the SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal is new paper “Ultrahigh-Definition Production Codecs – The Agony of Choice”. A team from the EBU and IRT pointed out that there are really too …

Tags:Codecs| Testing

Next-gen codecs set to disrupt transcoding for the next ten years

by Bob Raikes

What They Say A new report from Rethink Research says that ‘fallout from HEVC’ is damaging the adoption of VVC, but AV1 adoption is rising because of Android TV and OTT delivery. At the …

Tags:Codecs| Forecasts| Market Data

Content, Delivery and Display

by Bob Raikes

At Display Daily, we focus hard on the final part of a display system – the interface between the system and the viewer. However, one of our mantras over the years is that to …

Tags:Broadcast| Codecs| Streaming Video| VOD