At long last, HDTV is arriving in Europe, with a single HDTV DBS service already operating, and launches in the U.K., Germany, and France announced for the 2005-06 period. As might be expected, there ...

At its Pattaya, Thailand meeting in late March, the Moving Picture Experts Group, or MPEG, promoted a new video coding standard to Final Draft status. The standard will be known as ITU-T Rec. H.264 ...

Video compression and wireless communications technologies are enabling wide access to various video sources on demand. Meanwhile, consumer demands are spurring new products such as handheld wireless ...

With the upcoming PSP 2.00 Update (now available in Japan, due out sometime in the near future in North America), Sony Computer Entertainment has made some major and much-requested changes to its ...

Digital video currently follows the MPEG-2 standard, but improvements in image processing technology are set to move MPEG-4 to the forefront of video compression. Millions of DVD disks, satellite ...

When we asked our faithful readers what technological advances had made the biggest difference to their lives, Prospero424 stepped up to the plate to deliver a humdinger: video compression. To ...

There's no question that MPEG-4 is going to succeed MPEG-2 as the standard for streaming digital video. Faster processor speeds and cheap (already less than $200) video capture and playback cards will ...

PARIS — Has MPEG had its day? A Milpitas, Calif. startup will argue in the affirmative Monday (March 25) when it announces an object-based video coding algorithm that it calls a radical departure from ...

The Motion Pictures Expert Group has issued a new video standards draft that promises to deliver twice the video quality at the same size, or alternatively, identical video quality at half the data ...

Editors' Note: This article has been updated since its original posting. Seven years ago, when I was still a clueless kid, I played my first video clip on the Internet using a 56k connection. It was ...

While Microsoft and RealNetworks wage a noisy fight over their audio and video technologies, an underdog with a strong pedigree and whiz-bang features is quietly entering the fray. After lying low for ...

A newly proposed MPEG-4 licensing plan is sending jitters through multimedia circles, raising cost concerns about a new standard that promises to bring powerful interactive features to digital video.