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YouTube Launches Public Beta Test for AV1 Video Codec

by Andrew Fenn

YouTube has launched its AV1 beta playlist, a selection of videos encoded with the AV1 video format, with which Google intends to replace its current VP9 codec. Users browsing on Chrome 70 or Firefox …

Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 36| YouTube

3IT Holds an Open Day

by Bob Raikes

3IT is focusing these days on AR and VR after starting as the 3D Centre. 3IT is a trade association that has close links to the Fraunhofer HHI in Berlin and each year it …

Siggraph 2018 Immersive Pavillion Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Although the announcements from Nvidia and StarVR were highlights of the show, and there were plenty of vendors on the floor, there was also an ‘Experience Hall’ for start-ups and research projects as well …

Siggraph 2018 Show Floor Roundup

by Bob Raikes

Christie had no new products at the show but had a number of demos of projection mapping, its video over IP technology and one in particular that caught our attention. The company has a …

Italy to Switch Over from MPEG-2 Format to MPEG-4 from 2020

by Andrew Fenn

Italy will switch from MPEG-2 coding to MPEG-4 on the DVB-T standard from January 1st, 2020 as part of its plan to free up the 700MHz frequency band for high-speed mobile internet. Following a …

Cable Industry Gearing up for the High Bandwidth Needs of Light Field Displays

by Chris Chinnock

CableLabs, the development group funding by the cable industry, held their summer conference last week in Colorado. A number of topics were discussed, but I want to focus on their views of display use …

Chrome and Firefox Now Support AV1 Video Codec

by Andrew Fenn

Support for the Alliance for Open Media’s jointly developed, open-source and royalty-free video codec AV1, tipped to replace HEVC, has been rolled out to development versions of Chrome and Firefox. (Alliance for Open Media …

Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 31

Measat Collaborates with NovelSat and V-Nova on UHD Channel Distribution

by Andrew Fenn

Measat has announced a showcase in collaboration with NovelSat and V-Nova, to demonstrate compression for Ultra HD distribution over satellite. The company says that the new technology provides up to three times the bandwidth …

Packing Them In

by Pete Putman

Compression has become an integral part of our world. We compress video and audio. We compress color resolution to save luminance detail. We compress photos to send over the Internet. We compress digital cinema …

Tags:Codecs| SID Display Week 2018| Vol 25 - Issue 19

Breakthrough in Low Power Video Capture

by Bob Raikes

A group of engineers at the University of Washington has developed a way of transmitting video data direct from a camera module that is directly connected to an antenna to reduce power consumption by …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Codecs| Mobile Display Monitor| R&D (Research & Development)| Vol 25 - Issue 16

NAB 2018: Where Do We Go From Here?

by Pete Putman

I just returned from my 24th consecutive visit to the NAB Show in Las Vegas and left with a lot to think about. This was one of the quietest NAB shows I’ve ever attended …

Bitmovin Using AI for New Encoding Approach

by Chris Chinnock

Bitmovin is a video delivery company. The way the company explained its encoding process is that it is somewhat analogous to the way data is divided into packets and delivered from source to destination …