Yesterday a new consortium called the Alliance for Open Media announced that it's working on creating a new royalty-free codec for internet-delivered video. Here are some thoughts on the ...

You don’t notice good video compression—until it’s not there. For years, people have streamed high-resolution video without thinking about the tech behind it. But when companies clash over which ...

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265, promises twice the compression possible with Blu-ray’s best video compression methods. But how does it work, and is it enough to get us better ...

According to Peter Moller, CEO of HEVC Advance, “We are very pleased to offer this initiative. A critical goal of HEVC Advance is to encourage widespread adoption of HEVC/UHD technology in consumer ...

Being too cheap to buy commercial software to play H265, I used the NVidia Video Codec SDK (for Windows) to test out Maxwell's HEVC-playback capabilities. First, even though the SDK v4.0 was released ...