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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 …

Live HEVC Streaming With Media Excel and Unified Streaming

by Tom Allen

Encoding/transcoding firm Media Excel and stream technology provider Unified Streaming are now offering a joint content delivery solution, based on HEVC, using existing infrastructure and ‘proven’ workflows. Live HEVC has been added to Media …

Tags:HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Streaming Video| Vol 23 - Issue 28

Intel Kaby Lake Processors to Support HDR – Maybe

by Chris Chinnock

The web was rampant with leaked information on Intel’s new Kaby Lake-S platform and its reported support for HDR. Intel has not confirmed this, the information below is rumor, not fact. Nevertheless, such support …

Allegro Adds HEVC Test Streams

by Tom Allen

Allegro DVT has extended its HEVC test suites with new test streams. The MV-HEVC stream is a multiview extension profile of HEVC; it provides the means to encode content with multiple camera views, to …

Tags:HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Ericsson chosen by KT SkyLife for UHDTV expansion

by Tom Allen

South Korean satellite pay-TV provider KT SkyLife has chosen to use Ericsson technology in its UltraHD service. Ericsson’s HEVC encoders will be used in KT SkyLife’s fifth UltraHD channel.

MPEG Expands Licence Coverage

by Tom Allen

MPEG LA has updated its HEVC and DisplayPort patent licences, to reflect recent revisions. The HEVC Patent Portfolio License now conforms with recent updates to the HEVC standard, as defined in Recommendation ITU-T H.265 …

EBU to Use NTT Electronics’ HEVC Codecs for Motor Sports 2016 Live Content Transmission

by Isaac Oburu

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has decided to test NTT Electronics’ HEVC encoder and decoder for live content transmission throughout the 2016 motor sports season. The brand new HC11000E encoder and HC11000D decoder from …

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Viaccess-Orca Live Streams UHD 360° Football

by Tom Allen

Viaccess-Orca and French TV channel TF1 trialled a live UltraHD 360° VR broadcast of a football match on the 29th March. The signal was encoded using HEVC and sent to a private test audience. …

NAB is All About Codecs

by Tom Allen

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2016 show will take place in Las Vegas between the 16th and 21st April. There will be a renewed focus on traditional broadcasting, using the ATSC 3.0 platform, …

Beamr Acquires Vanguard

by Tom Allen

Israeli company Beamr, a specialist in video compression whom we have reported on before, has announced that it is acquiring California-based Vanguard Video. Vanguard is a supplier of H.264 and HEVC codec technologies. Beamr’s …

Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mergers & Acquisitions| Vol 23 - Issue 12

Testing Resolution with Quality.TV

by Tom Allen

Quality.TV, founded last year by Florian Friedrich (CEO of AVTop) and Joe Kane (CEO of Joe Kane Productions and journalist), introduced a universal test for UltraHD and FullHD in 2015, which was designed to …

Are we at a Codec Inflection Point?

by Tom Allen

The topic of codecs keeps coming up in the video industry. Not only are new formats like UltraHD and VR demanding ever-higher levels of efficiency, but booming levels of internet video herald a surge …

Tags:Codecs| Google| HEVC (H.265)| Vol 23 - Issue 08| VP9