[Editor’s Note: Stewart Wolpin is not only a TWICE contributor but also an HEVC analyst for Digital Technology Consulting.] The question is, is this format war too inside-baseball for most CE ...

In this excerpt from his presentation at Streaming Media West, Twitch's Tarek Amara discusses the current crop of codecs for live streaming and VOD and the comparative compression efficiencies of each ...

Unless you're a (video) camera freak, you may not know much about Red, a company that has made a string of innovations with its line of digital video cameras that capture 4K footage (i.e., 4096x2160 ...

Fraunhofer, the German company that helped develop the H.264, H.265 and MP3 encoding formats, has unveiled a new video encoding standard that could severely reduce streaming bottlenecks. Called ...

In a bid to kickstart Google's new royalty free VP9 video format, YouTube will demonstrate 4K streaming technology at the forthcoming 2014 International CES. The 4K format (also called UltraHD) has ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Luxoft Holding, Inc (NYSE:LXFT), a leading provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions to a global client base, today announced the creation of its ...

Google seems to be saying "Forget H.265 - our VP9 codec is here, now, and is better" Google have oddly found themselves in a great position to capitalise on the current 4K fervour with their VP9 codec ...

Search engine Google is working on a new video codec which can deliver Ultra HD 4K using half the bandwidth of VP9 and a quarter of the bandwidth of H.264. VP10 is claimed to offer sharper images, ...

Sony is to introduce a new 4K-capable codec as well as two new cameras to support it. Sony is also upgrading its F65 to record 8K, and will enable its existing FS700 camera to record 4K. The new ...

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