When the companies disabled HEVC support built into the CPUs of select PCs, it raised uncomfortable questions: Why remove a ...

Google can do basically whatever it wants regarding video and web standards. YouTube is the world’s most popular video site. Chrome is the world’s most popular ...

As much as we love debating the pros and cons of new codecs like AV1, VVC, and LCEVC, independent premium-content publishers have largely ignored them. Take Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) founding ...

On Jan. 5, Dolby announced that LG’s 2016 OLED TVs and Super UHD TVs would feature Dolby Vision HDR technology, signaling that Dolby Vision will likely become the de facto premium HDR technology in ...

We recently mentioned that macOS Big Sur includes a new version of Safari with several enhancements, including support for HDR videos. It turns out there’s a platform that’s already benefiting from ...

In a nutshell: The Alliance for Open Media will launch a new brand to promote a royalty-free audio-video experience on consumer hardware, something Google has already achieved with the recently ...

Service providers must optimize three compression variables simultaneously: video quality, bitrate efficiency/processing power and latency ...

There is a new encoding format from the creators of H.264, H.265, and MP3 that aims to cut the size of 4K and 8K video in half. Dubbed H.266 VCC (Versatile Video Coding), and created by Fraunhofer in ...

It's been a long time coming, but it looks like YouTube finally has HDR support on Xbox consoles. It doesn't matter if you're using a console from this generation or the last, if you're streaming ...

Netflix has begun streaming select titles encoded in the new, more efficient AV1 codec to compatible Smart TVs and game consoles. AV1 is the first royalty-free high-efficiency video codec, developed ...

It's been a long time since Xbox users have clamored for an HDR support for Youtube, but finally it's here. Previous gen and current gen Xbox consoles can now support HDR when you're streaming Youtube ...