New Video Format Provides the Same High Quality at Half the Bit Rate

Right now, most of the members of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) use the H.246 video codec to transmit high-definition video. Everything from Blu-ray players to web video uses H.264 nowadays. The successor to that standard has been released though. Dubbed ITU-T H.265, it keeps th... [ read more >> ]

A Panasonic 4K UHDTV, one of the reasons H.265 is needed

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A Panasonic 4K UHDTV, one of the reasons H.265 is needed