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Super Hi-Vision technology may not be completely worked out yet, but with that on the way, plus HD for mobile devices and even more streaming, the 88th meeting of the MPEG/ISO standards group in Maui was apparently a busy one as attendees voted to work on a new, better form of compression to replace MPEG-4 AVC. "High Performance Video Coding" (HVC) is just a dream at the moment, but be sure to pencil that in as one more spec to look out for in the future. Of course, they didn't mention a delivery system for
22.2 channel audio, but we'll just assume that's being handled as well.
[Via
EE Times UK]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
img eL @ May 5th 2009 10:16PM
It's a free for all!
NorthCranky @ May 5th 2009 11:27PM
mmmmmm more res.
dagamer43 @ May 6th 2009 1:38AM
I bet they got a lot done in Maui...
Asterra @ May 6th 2009 3:21AM
Meanwhile, RED moves right along with their mystery compression which seems to defy the implied challenge of newer and better codecs - and perhaps reality itself.
tsamb @ May 6th 2009 4:38AM
I would be a lot happier for the rest of the encoding community to put all of this time, money and energy in doing what RED is 'supposedly' doing. I don't EVER see the need for that many pixels for a cinema application.
Computer/workstation practical applications are another thing all together. But that's not what the MOVING PICTURE Expert Group do.
Pete W @ May 6th 2009 12:19PM
Japan has been messing about with UHD for years. Since the '70s IIRC.
Charles @ May 6th 2009 10:51PM
The replacement for H.264 has been in development for several years now.
It's called H.265. They're trying to squeeze another 50% compression efficiency.