Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support

When the companies disabled HEVC support built into the CPUs of select PCs, it raised uncomfortable questions: Why remove a ...
Ars Technica

HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.
Streaming Media Magazine

HEVC vs. H.264: Bandwidth and Cost Savings

The case for moving from ubiquitous older video codecs like H.264 (AVC) to newer codecs like AV1 or HEVC (H.265) is typically expressed in terms of encoding efficiency that translates to bandwidth and ...
Streaming Media Magazine

Google Chrome Plays HEVC: What Does it Mean?

When I first heard that Google Chrome played HEVC, I checked the weather in Hades to determine if the River Styx had, in fact, frozen over. Reports were inconclusive. Then I started reaching out to ...
Business Wire

Sharp, Motorola Mobility, and Kyocera Join Access Advance’s HEVC Advance Patent Pool as Licensees

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access Advance today announced that: Sharp Corporation, Motorola Mobility LLC, and Kyocera Corporation, among other recent additions, have become Licensees of the HEVC Advance ...
Geeky Gadgets

Synology Removes Graphics Drivers and HEVC & H.264 HW Transcoding Support

What happens when a trusted tech brand makes a decision that fundamentally alters how its products are used? For Synology, the answer is unfolding in real-time, as its recent move to eliminate ...