If you are trying to choose a video compression methodology, get ready to be confused. The confusion starts right away with an alphabet soup that includes H.264, MJPEG and MPEG4. Now, wade through the ...

Viewers today are used to high compression ratios and artifacts from wireless and mobile video (H.264/AVC or H.265/HEVC). But there is a threshold where the experience is so poor they stop watching ...

When we asked our faithful readers what technological advances had made the biggest difference to their lives, Prospero424 stepped up to the plate to deliver a humdinger: video compression. To ...

Broadcasters have a range of choices when it comes to signal compression solutions. For advanced, professional-grade compression, MPEG-2, H.264 and JPEG 2000 are all viable options. Ultimately, ...

When it comes to very high-resolution video, researchers concluded that a new video compression technology is a big step up from today's prevailing H.264 standard. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

AV1 compression technology from companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Netflix is here. And it's blowing up the video industry's patent rules, too. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Last year, version 1.2 was published, extending the feature set to include the 4:2:0 and 4:2:2, YC b C r formats commonly seen in digital television, and the group continues to develop and extend ...

Learn about the impact of compression methods (MJPEG, MPEG-4, H.264) on storage, bandwidth in video surveillance, and the shift from VCRs to DVRs and NVRs for efficient storage solutions. Digital ...

Display technology has advanced in leaps and bounds. We can now create professional-quality video content on our mobiles, and our cars often have more displays than our living room. In recent years, ...

Because video clips are made up of sequences of individual images, or “frames,” video compression algorithms share many concepts and techniques with still-image compression algorithms. Therefore, we ...

Anyone who was lucky enough to secure a Gmail invite back in early 2004 would have gasped in wonder at the storage on offer, a whole gigabyte! Nearly two decades later there’s more storage to be had ...