In recent years, the adoption of the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) standards helped digital video become a key ingredient in the digital entertainment industry and offered consumers a new ...

MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) codec adoption in digital video devices isn't thought of as a growth opportunity for the MPEG-2 video codec, but it is. Rather than cannibalize the business for MPEG ...

Known as H.264, among other designations, the new format is turning heads over claims that it can deliver DVD-quality broadcasts over the Internet using considerably fewer network resources than ...

In 2020, the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) plans to launch three different codecs. To put that in perspective, there was a nine-year gap between MPEG-2 (1994) and H.264 (2003), and a ten-year ...

Moonlight Cordless will enable the digital storing and distribution of MPEG-2 video content to multiple PCs and IP set-top boxes throughout the home or enterprise using a consumer-grade video capture ...

Following on the news that tech patent pool administrators MPEG-LA and Via Licensing have joined forces to form Via LA, Via LA President Heath Hoglund discusses how the "united entity" will operate, ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. As Hollywood readies its new and controversial high-definition DVDs, at least one major studio is leaving some of the most advanced parts ...

In part one, I described how tapeless cameras offer a wide choice of codecs, with some also having the ability to output raw and/or uncompressed files. The next step in the workflow is to choose an ...

Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs. VP8 ...

Google and MPEG LA have announced that they have come to an agreement over Google’s VP8 video codec. 11 patent holders have agreed that any patented techniques used by VP8 can be used without payment ...

A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. As Hollywood readies its new and controversial high-definition DVDs, at least one major studio is leaving some of the most advanced parts ...