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 ...

MPEG-4 is a multimedia toolbox developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) out of the need for a non-proprietary universal open multimedia standard. Its coding algorithms for natural sound ...

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 ...

Dick Tracy's watch, back in the 1950s, allowed the comic strip detective to make phone calls from his wrist. Sure, he had a limited number of people he could call, but anyone watching him do it was ...

I want to join the next generation of video codecs, MPEG-4, for my video projects, but I'm hopelessly confused and Google isn't helping me. Here are the facts as I know them. The people who brought us ...

An Internet streaming group on Tuesday endorsed a licensing plan for MPEG-4 audio compression, sidestepping controversy that has erupted around a highly anticipated sister video technology put forward ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.