From Jon Peddie Research
by Artem Alekseenko
MPEG LA announced that enforcement actions have been brought in Landgericht Düsseldorf, Germany against Samsung Electronics GmbHfor infringement of patents in MPEG LA’s HEVC Patent Portfolio License. The patents are essential to the HEVC …
Tags:HEVC (H.265)| MPEG| Patents| Samsung
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Codec consultant, Jan Ozer (I’m sure I have one of his books from many years ago, somewhere..) has published an introductory guide to different codecs. What We Think This is a …
Tags:AV1 Codec| Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)| VP8| VP9
by Bob Raikes
What They Say MPEG said that it has completed a verification test assessment of the new Versatile Video Coding (VVC or H.266) standard for ultra-high definition (UHD) content with standard dynamic range. According to …
Tags:AV1 Codec| HEVC (H.265)| MPEG| VVC (H.266)
by Bob Raikes
What They Say Google will require Android TV device makers to support the AV1 codec from April 1st 2021. The latest Fire TVs (from Toshiba and others) have already got support and Netflix is …
Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| Streaming Video
by Matthew Brennesholtz
Video compression has been an integral part of video since its inception before World War II. All consumer video and almost all professional video is compressed because the data files associated even with standard …
Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)
by Chris Chinnock
IBC 2019 saw several innovations in 8K delivery including new options for 8K live encoding and 8K streaming (including 8K/50p down-sampled to 4K and delivered at data rates as low as 14.5 Mbps with …
Tags:HEVC (H.265)| Streaming Video| Super Hi-Vision (8K)
by Bob Raikes
KPN in the Netherlands has said that it has started the transition of its DTT service to support DVB-T2 which will maintain the number of channels, but will move from SD to HD by …
Tags:DVB-T & T2| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Netherlands| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 25 - Issue 34
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
by Andrew Fenn
Czech Republic broadcaster, Ceská Televize, began transmitting its signal in the DVB-T2 format this week. The company plans to simulcast in both DVB-T2 and its predecessor format for up to 12 months, after which …
Tags:Czech Republic| DVB-T & T2| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 12
by Bob Raikes
8K is so ‘last year’, at least that’s the way we felt after talking to Spin Digital which is a small German company that was in Hall 14. The company was showing 16K video …
Tags:HEVC (H.265)| ISE 2018| Large Display Monitor| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| Vol 25 - Issue 06
by Andrew Fenn
Media server app Plex has been updated to support Ultra HD streaming on the Apple TV 4K. Additionally, HEVC decoding and direct playback of FLAC audio files has been activated for all tvOS 11 …
Tags:Apple| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| STBs| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 43
by Andrew Fenn
Infuse version 5.6 is out now on tvOS and iOS, adding support for HDR video for capable devices. The update also features dynamic range colour conversion, to improve the look of colours even on …
Tags:Apple| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 43