Fraunhofer’s new H.266 video format uses half the bandwidth of H.265. It could be crucial to streaming 8K video, HDR, and 360-degree videos. You’ll have to wait until the fall to see it reach shipping ...

For about as long as video media has existed, a war of formats has taken place behind the scenes of the entertainment industry. The winners of each era were VHS, DVD, and the reigning champ of 4K ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

The most interesting about the iMovie update that dropped yesterday is that “improves compatibility” with camcorders using the iFrame video format. The iFrame video format, you say? Why yes, it’s a ...

With the release of the PlayStation 3 and other HD players some people have already made their choice, but it's still too early to predict an outright winner. Not the least of all because Paramount ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I vividly remember my dad coming home with a Betamax. He was proud. Like, “I have secured our family’s technological legacy” proud ...

Amazon's streaming platform, Twitch, is now testing vertical videos, signaling a switch for its content creators and audience. The experience is currently at an early alpha testing stage, with only a ...

media files dont compress well enough with zip/rars etc to be worth doing. divx is already a compressed video format anyway. you wont get lower bitrate audio/video from using a lossless compression ...

The video cassette tape was really the first successful home video format; discs just couldn’t compete back in the early days. That’s not to say nobody tried, however, with RCA’s VideoDisc a valiant ...

Prime Video will bring back its popular side-by-side commercial format for its NASCAR Cup Series coverage during the 2026 ...

So there's a bunch of old VHS tapes I would like to capture while I still have the ability to actually play them. I have a USB video capture box http://blitzcast.com ...