At long last, HDTV is arriving in Europe, with a single HDTV DBS service already operating, and launches in the U.K., Germany, and France announced for the 2005-06 period. As might be expected, there ...

As broadcasters look to the future, many are concerned about the development of even newer compression schemes. While new compression technologies may offer additional benefits, there is the trade-off ...

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 ...

The Motion Pictures Expert Group has issued a new video standards draft that promises to deliver twice the video quality at the same size, or alternatively, identical video quality at half the data ...

Digital video, with its inherent quality, reliability and flexibility advantages over traditional analog video, is showing up in a wide range of applications. Unlike analog video, signals in the ...

With the upcoming PSP 2.00 Update (now available in Japan, due out sometime in the near future in North America), Sony Computer Entertainment has made some major and much-requested changes to its ...

There's no question that MPEG-4 is going to succeed MPEG-2 as the standard for streaming digital video. Faster processor speeds and cheap (already less than $200) video capture and playback cards will ...

Tokyo, September 5, 2005 −− Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the development of middleware for the company's VPU4 (Video Processing Unit 4) image processing hardware accelerator supporting ...

Yesterday, Apple released a preview version of QuickTime 6 that supports MPEG-4, a new standard for rich media on the Internet. Despite QuickTime 6’s release, Apple still hasn’t worked out all of the ...

An Internet streaming group on Tuesday endorsed a licensing plan for MPEG-4 audio compression, sidestepping controversy that has erupted around a highly anticipated sister video technology put forward ...