MediaTek Announces SoC Family Bringing Support For VVC, AV1, MPEG-H To TVs
Taiwan-based SoC developer MediaTek, which produces processing, demod, decoding and other chip solutions for many of the world’s largest smart TV manufacturers, introduced Thursday its Pentonic series of SoCs designed to bring support for a host of new codecs used in advanced smart TV applications….
Reuters: EU Investigating AOMedia For Possible Anti-Trust Practices With AV1
The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), developer of the AV1 codec used by Netflix, Google’s YouTube and other streaming services, as a potentially more efficient alternative to HEVC, is under investigation by the European Union for possible anti-trust activities, Reuters reported last week. If such…
LG Joins AOMedia’s AV1 Codec Promoter Level
LG Electronics has formally joined The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), on the “Promoter” level for the open AV1 codec that is building momentum as an alternative to HEVC H.265. According to AOMedia, LG joined its ranks at the Promoter level, lining up with previous…
Netflix Expands AV1 Codec Streaming To Smart TVs
Netflix has begun streaming content encoded with the three-year-old high-efficiency codec AV1 from the Alliance of Open Media (AOMedia) on supporting smart TVs, expanding the range of devices beyond Android mobile products. The world’s largest video streaming network announced the move in a blog on…
Should You Get An 8K TV?
Beyond a handful of models first introduced by Samsung starting at the end of last year, 8K Ultra HDTVs have been pretty hard to find in consumer electronics showrooms. That’s starting to change. New models are here or coming soon from additional brands including Sony…
AV1 Codec Released To Rival HEVC In 4K Streaming Video Ecosystem
There’s a new codec coming and it might soon have an impact on how you watch streaming videos on smart TVs, set-top media streamers and other devices. It’s called AV1, and it is being promoted by an organization made up of some the biggest companies…
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