ALEXANDRIA, VA.—The MPEG-2 compression algorithm is an integral part of the ATSC 1.0 broadcast standard. These are the digital rules that govern today’s HDTV transmissions in the United States and ...

Last week, I described my unhappiness with the new generation of tapeless camcorders--the ones that record onto mini-DVD discs, tiny hard drives or memory chips. Many of these models record video in ...

It may seem obvious that the many merits of the MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard will render the industry-changing MPEG-2 standard obsolete, but there is plenty of life left in the ...

In recent years, the adoption of the Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG) standards helped digital video become a key ingredient in the digital entertainment industry and offered consumers a new ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has started selling licences for MPEG-2 and VC-1 video codecs, after complaints from users who turned the cheap Linux computer into a media centre. Because the £25 Linux ...

With all the excitement around HEVC and all the reports we have put out at Frost & Sullivan on the topic, we get asked all the time if multiple system operators (MSOs) should skip AVC and switch ...

Q. What is the difference between the MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 video formats? A. MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 are compression standards used for digital video. All of the formats were developed by the ...

MacFixIt readers are reporting, and we have confirmed in-house, that an MPEG-2 component in QuickTime 6.4 expired on December 14th, leaving users without the ability to playback MPEG-2 files. So far, ...

Old habits must really die hard for Sony: once more proving the divisiveness between their content and technology branches, Sony Pictures' senior vice president of advanced technology Don Eklund ...

Hi all,<BR><BR>A year and a half ago my family purchased a new DV Camcorder, a Panasonic PV-GS70 3CCD camera.<BR><BR>I've been converting most of our home videos to DVD using various methods, and I ...