The technology, also called H.265 and the successor to H.264, promises to double video quality for better streaming and higher-res TV. But it'll come with a patent burden, too. Stephen Shankland ...

Samsung is being sued by MPEG LA, a licensing body that holds the patents for the HEVC codec among others. According to the complaint (via Business Wire), Samsung was both a licensor and licensee from ...

Video compression is the critical enabler of all video streaming, and today we’re at a codec crossroads unlike any that we’ve experienced. Though H.264 remains firmly entrenched as the go-to codec for ...

Video is the Internet. The networking giant Cisco estimates it consumed about 70 percent of all online traffic in 2014, and that share will rise to between 80 and 90 percent by 2018. The ...

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has approved the H.265 video standard, a new technology expected to ease the bandwidth burden on global computer networks. The new High Efficiency ...

A standards group completes its work on a compression technology called HEVC, or H.265, which promises to improve resolution, image quality, and color. Google's VP9 is waiting in the wings. Stephen ...

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND–The International Telecommunications Union, a standard setting body for video codecs, has officially approved HEVC, also known as H.265 or High Efficiency Video Coding. The new ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.-- July 11, 2014 --Vanguard Video, the leader in commercial deployments of H.265/HEVC video compression technology, will release version 2.0 of their professional software codec, ...

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 ...

Apple's decision to adopt HEVC basically means two things - higher quality video and better compression rates. The HEVC standard enables a video to be compressed into a file that is about half the ...