Even though many pundits think 4K will be delivered by streaming, there are plenty of households still with slower broadband for whom this will not be an option. Now, it seems, Google's free VP9 codec ...

Last month, Google revealed that it was planning to finish defining its VP9 video codec on June 17 (today), after which it will start using the next-generation compression technology in Chrome and on ...

Finally, we’re going to see an open source video codec take over the web and video streaming. Google has just announced a huge list of important hardware partners that will be adopting the open source ...

Microsoft announced today that it will add support in its Edge browser for the open source VP9 video codec fostered by Google and its WebM coalition. In addition, Microsoft announced last week that it ...

On October 17, I moderated an event entitled the Battle of the Codecs: AV1 vs VVC, presented by Bitmovin as an adjunct to the Demuxed conference in San Francisco. I learned a lot about how many ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Luxoft Holding, Inc (NYSE:LXFT), a leading provider of software development services and innovative IT solutions to a global client base, today announced the creation of its ...

There’s a lot of interest in ultra-high definition (UHD) video, and the two codecs that drive it, HEVC and VP9. Over the past few months, a new UHD codec called Daala has also come to the fore. I ...

Vidyo continues to advance the state of the art in video collaboration with today's release of a VP9 codec optimized for real-time video. Vidyo focused this ground-up VP9 implementation on optimizing ...

The VP9 codec from Google has been shown to be every bit an equal, or in some cases better than HEVC. But could rumblings over patents once again stall both it and its successor's progress? There are ...

As the ongoing Meerkatification of humanity proves, the internet (in one form or another) is becoming more and more about video. At peak times, Netflix and YouTube alone account for half of all web ...

The Windows 10 Anniversary Update, due this summer, will expand the range of video and audio codecs that are supported by the Edge browser. Microsoft is adding the VP9 video codec, the Opus audio ...

Internet's biggest video provider to stage 4K demos at CES with Google-owned VP9 codec with LG, Panasonic and Sony The move could set the stage for an industry fight over which next-generation codec ...