[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 ...

While VP8, Google's initial attempt at a royalty-free video codec, failed to gain much traction, the search giant is now focusing its efforts on ultra-high-resolution 4K video with its new VP9 codec, ...

Google is working on a new open-source video codec, VP10, that should shrink the amount of bandwidth required for 4K video to half that of VP9, and a quarter of Apple's current preferred compression ...

4K videos have currently become one of the main parts of the video content on the Internet with the sharpest and most life-like video presence. They have a higher resolution than 1080p videos while ...

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 ...

The big question is, “Why shoot in 4K today?” As online video producers, few or none of us are actually delivering videos to our clients or our online audience in 4K. There is some demand for 4K out ...

A recent discussion on Reddit has brought to light the news that YouTube no longer has the 4K video playback option when using Safari. The change may have come after a long ago announcement that ...

Makers of cable boxes and video streaming devices will soon have the option of delivering 4K video with STMicroelectronics’ new chips, which will decode the emerging HEVC video codec and support the ...

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